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Chapter 352 The Cossacks

"I still want to struggle when I fall into our hands?" He Yi punched Ivan in the face.

The fierce little Cossack leader Ivan fell to the ground with a star-eyed look on the ground, and his hands were tied behind him with thick ropes.

"Who are you?! Bastard, why should you attack us!" Ivan said in a daze.

"What language does this person speak?" He Yi turned his head and asked the people from his pioneering group.

This time, everyone in the pioneer group shook their heads, and no one knew what Ivan said.

"Is it really a Russian?" He Yi was unable to communicate with them, and both sides just stared at him.

More than a dozen Cossacks, including Ivan, were tied up together and surrounded by hundreds of pioneer groups. Since they entered the East and West Siberian plains, they have not seen so many soldiers, and the pioneer groups also have muskets. During the battle between the two sides, two Cossacks were shot and killed, so Ivan led the rest of the people to surrender directly and gave up the idea of ​​resistance.

If the other party was only hundreds of natives, even if Ivan had only a few people around him, he would dare to attack actively, but the other party had soldiers with hundreds of muskets. If he continued to resist stubbornly, his entire army would be wiped out.

"Sir, Xiao Liu said some of them can speak Turkic!" said a member of a pioneering group.

"Some of them can speak Turkic? Okay, those who understand Turkic language communicate with them." He Yi was overjoyed after learning this.

As expected, one of the people led by Ivan really knows Turkic. With this person as a translator, all the problems of communication will be solved easily.

"Sir, they said they were Cossacks from Western Tsarist Russia. Their Cossacks were a nation formed by a mixed group of people of different races, with descendants of the Turks, and the Eastern Slavs, which were also very diverse in languages. However, most people spoke Western languages, and only a few descendants of the Turks also understood Turkic language." said the members of the pioneer group who communicated with Ivan and others.

"There are too many languages ​​in this world, and it is extremely troublesome to communicate. It would be great if everyone knew Chinese." He Yi said with annoyance.

"Isn't this what the military leader is doing? Unfortunately, it's hard for our generation to see. In the future, our descendants will be able to see the grand occasion of Chinese speaking all over the world." Chen Xiaode said.

"I'm thinking too much, let's solve the Cossacks here first."

With the translator, He Yi unceremoniously ordered several Cossacks to transport members of the pioneer group to a river beach that was not easy to detect on the other side. Several Cossacks were left on the east coast as hostages.

Ivan could only stare at the soldiers of the pioneer regiment who were constantly transported to the other side. He lost the courage to fight, and was beaten to the point of being blue and swollen. They were originally despicable and always held their own fierceness to kill and set fire, but after meeting the more vicious pioneer regiment of the Fu Liao Army, they were soon fist-and-footed.

"Where did these people come out? Why do they have more advanced muskets than us?" Ivan asked the Cossack who could speak Turkic.

"They said they were soldiers of the Eastern Celestial Empire, and they also said that the Siberian plain was their territory since ancient times. I heard that we invaded their territory, so they sent troops to expel us." said the Turkic Cossacks.

"Robber logic, robber logic! Since we Cossacks headed east, many of us have wiped out the Mongols. We have never heard of any connection with the Eastern Heavenly Dynasty!" Ivan was so angry that his nose was crooked, "It's still since ancient times!"

"They have many people and many guns, so we are not opponents. Of course, they have the final say." The other captured Cossacks also accepted their fate.

"Oh no, they are numerous and powerful, and they are in the dark. Our main force on the West Bank is not their opponent!" Ivan thought of the commander who stayed on the other side and the group of Cossacks he led. "If the commander is also captured, our largest expedition team will be destroyed!"

The other Cossack prisoners also changed color.

"You group of prisoners yelled randomly, be content with me, otherwise I will shoot one by one!" A pioneer soldier who was guarding them pointed a musket at them.

Although he knew that these Cossacks did not understand Chinese, they must have known the bright muskets.

When Xiao Liu saw the group of Cossack prisoners who caught his family, he was so angry that he kept throwing them with stones, while the fear of death-hungry Cossack prisoners moved their bodies to avoid stones like earthworms on the ground.

The pioneering regiment had 400 troops, and there were also large carriages carrying supplies. It was difficult for these large carriages to cross the river in a short time, and He Yi and the others were not relieved that before the Cossacks on the east coast were pacified, they rashly transported important supplies to the east coast.

So he left about a hundred men to stay on the west bank, responsible for guarding the prisoners and carriages, and 300 people crossed the Lena River in small boats, planning to attack the Cossacks on the east bank.

"Although we left some of the troops on the West Bank, our 300 people still have the advantage in number and firepower. We must try our best to avoid unnecessary casualties." He Yi gathered members of the pioneer regiment who crossed the Lena River.

The members of these pioneering regiments usually engage in some chores during pioneering, but they are still soldiers at heart. Once they encounter such occasions, their training results when the ice and snow are blocked in winter can't be pioneered, and their spirits spread.

"Sir, I brought a dozen people to their camps as the group of Cossack prisoners. They certainly did not expect that the person who returned was not their own people, but who had been replaced by ours, would definitely catch them off guard." said a small officer.

"Your idea is good, but you are too risky. If they are first discovered, you may be shot by their muskets on the river." He Yi said worriedly.

"We are not afraid! I have tried their muskets, with low accuracy and close range, so it is probably difficult to hit the target moving on the river." said the little officer.

"Okay, you take a dozen people on their boats to attack their camp from the river, and I personally lead the main force to attack them along the river. We will work together to ensure that they will be beaten to pieces!" He Yi said.

"What should we do if the indigenous people caught by the Cossacks? When we attack the Cossacks later, we may accidentally hurt the indigenous people."

"There is no way. If we don't take action to save them, their fate may be even worse. I hope they can escape in all directions after we open the fire. When we shoot, we will try our best to avoid these natives.
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