Marquis Gonzado always felt that his territory was a little unusual recently. Several hunting teams had lost contact. Someone had heard dense gunshots on the banks of the Angara River, which were vaguely heard from the upstream.

This news made Gonzado alert, and immediately sent a large number of scouts to search upstream along the Angara River.

Hunting teams will only use muskets when encountering tigers, bears and other beasts. They will usually only use traps to hunt because bullets will destroy the integrity of the fur and cause the fur to be sold at a price.

A few days later, a scout fled back to the Bratsk Army Fort in a hurry and told Gonsado: After walking south along the Angara River for three days, he suddenly found several heads raised high by wooden sticks on the riverside. Several of the dead were his scout companions. When he was about to cut down the wooden stick, someone attacked him with a musket, and the bullet scratched his butt. Fortunately, he quickly jumped into the river to save his life.

Gonzado subconsciously believed that it was the Mongols of the Buryat tribe who seized the muskets of a hunting team and then attacked them with the muskets.

So Gonzado immediately summoned the troops in the castle and several hunting teams nearby, preparing to give the Mongolians some color to see.

The Mongols have not been here before. In the past few years when the war was most intense, the Buryat tribe attacked them along the Angara River every year, and even attacked the Bratsk military fortress.

After Gonzado gained an advantage with his advanced weapons and massacred the Buryats in large numbers, the opponent no longer had the ability to attack the Bratsk military fortress.

In the past, Gonzado's army was too scarce to defeat the Mongols, and now he is not afraid. Last year, after he presented a group of muskets seized from the Orient to the Tsar and his family, His Majesty the Tsar and Duke Stroganov highly praised him, and sent an army of 200 Cossack warriors to the Bratsk Fort, and sent a large amount of military and living supplies to support his military operations advancing to Lake Baikal.

Now there is a regular garrison in the Bratsk Army Fort with more than 270 people. The total number of hunting teams that go out to hunt fur is about 300. That is to say, he can organize an army of nearly 600 people, and if necessary, he can also organize farmers, priests, craftsmen and others to join the army. Everyone in his territory has the obligation to fight for the lord.

Faced with the vulnerable Buryats, Gonzado did not go to great lengths, and only mobilized two hundred conventional troops in the fort, recalled several hunting teams close to each other, formed an army of 300 people, and advanced south along the Angara River.

He wanted to take the initiative to attack, and erect the heads of the Buryats on the shore of Lake Baikal.

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About one hundred miles from the Bratsk military fortress, an army was resting on the banks of the Angara River. Several wooden sticks were inserted in the open space next to the camp, and several miserable heads were erected on top.

They were the Guandi Army that had been expeditioning thousands of miles. Since the ambush of Gulian's expedition, the eight hundred elite troops were divided into four parts, two of which advanced north along the banks of the Angara River to hunt down any Russians they encountered on the way, and the other two went north along the Wasau River, the tributary of the Angara River, to hunt down the hunting teams in that area.

The Guandi army was led by Lao Huang. After meeting several waves of Russians all the way north, Lao Huang found that the Russians were not as powerful as the Buryats said. They just beat the Buryats so hard that they could not raise their heads. In front of the Guandi army with well-trained and more elite equipment, these Russians were not enough to see them at all.

Lao Huang has tried several Russian muskets. Although those muskets also use pellet black gunpowder, their power is not as powerful as Guandi Army's muskets. It may be because the quality of the iron is not good enough and the ratio of the gunpowder is not good enough. The effective range is about ten steps less than that of Guandi Army. Lao Huang once tried to increase the amount of gunpowder, and the range was increased, but he exploded after only firing the third shot. Fortunately, Lao Huang had a foresight and pulled the trigger from a distance with a rope to not be injured.

Their armor may not be very good. Most of them are leather armor and chain mail, and there are also a small number of scale armor. These armors are okay to prevent cold-proof weapons. If they encounter heavy armor-breaking arrows at close range, they will not be able to defend themselves without more than two layers of armor. If it is the Guandi Army's rifled rifle, they must have two layers of armor at a distance of 100 steps to barely withstand it.

Along the way, Lao Huang's Guandi army had hunted more than 20 Russians along the way. All the seized muskets, swords, guns, sticks, etc. were thrown into the river to reduce the load. The armor was somewhat useful. In addition, hundreds of squirrel skins, as well as many marten skins and fox skins. These things were of great use, so they had to be taken away.

After resting for a night, and after dawn, the whistle cavalry suddenly came to report that a Russian army appeared in front of him, with about 300 people, and was approaching the Central River quickly along the Angara River.

Lao Huang sent someone to cross the river to inform Zhao Wu on the other side. After carefully examining the nearby terrain, he continued to lead his army to move forward for several miles, and then stopped in an open area by the river to bury the pot and cook rice.

There is a hill to the north of the open land, and there is a small forest on the mountain. Logically speaking, if you want to camp and rest, you should choose hills with mountains and forests. However, Lao Huang chose an open land that is easy to attack and difficult to defend, and deliberately left the hill to the Russians, in order to let the opponent take the initiative to attack. The defense battle is much easier to fight than attack.

From the Russians' aggressive attitude, we can see that the other party does not take the Guandi Army seriously at all, or it may be that the other party does not know who the enemy is, and they think it is the Buryat who is here.

Lao Huang simply asked his subordinates to hang the seized furs on their bodies or on their heads to dress up as the image of Mongolians. The two hundred Guandi soldiers were covered with furs, wearing them, and wearing them. The outfits were strange and extremely generous. From a distance, they looked no different from the Buryat Mongols.

At dusk, the Russians arrived.

First, several cavalrymen riding tall horses stood on the hill to the north, looking at the Guandi Army who was eating in an open area from a distance.

Gradually, there were more cavalrymen. Some cavalry began to try to circumnavigate behind the Guandi Army, and some even rode their horses to the Guandi Army camp a hundred steps away, pulling up the reins to make the war horses sing their hooves and neighing, and then shouting loudly in Russian.

It was the Cossack cavalry, known as the strongest cavalry in the world.

Compared with the Russians that Lao Huang had encountered before, these cavalry were equipped with more neat equipment. Most of them held spears in their hands, sabers at their waists, and spears on their backs. Moreover, these cavalry were dressed very brightly, with cylindrical fur hats on their heads, and mostly wore furs. There should be chain mail and armor outside of leather armor. Some people were also wearing cloaks made of fur, which was more coquettish than Qin Chuan's mink coat.

At first, the Guandi Army was too lazy to bird with these beautifully dressed cavalrymen, and they only focused on eating. However, Lao Huang felt that this attitude was not very friendly and disrespectful to the other party, so he shouted a few words. The Guandi Army on the periphery then pretended to be panicked. Some ran around, and some held their shields on the ground and hid behind the shields for dinner.

The panic of the Guandi Army made the Cossack cavalry more and more proud. More and more cavalry began to gallop back and forth in the Guandi Army camp, showing Lao Huang a sigh of relief.

In Lao Huang's eyes, these are dying people.

I am almost dead, so why don’t I go and have a full meal and go on the road? What are you showing off here?

Not long after, the Marquis of Gonzado led the main force to arrive.

After climbing the hills, Gonzado immediately took a telescope to observe the other party.

At this time, the telescope could not accurately focus, and could not see the person's facial features, but could see the other person's clothes. Judging from the rough and versatile dressing style of fur, this enemy was undoubtedly the Buryat Mongols.

After putting down the telescope and observing the nearby terrain, Gonzado couldn't help but snorted: "Silly and arrogant Mongolians, I want to nourish my territory with your blood!"

After saying that, he waved his hand and launched an offensive signal without hesitation.
Chapter completed!