Chapter 1214: The Hatred Between the Chukchi and Tsarist Russia

Roar, roar, roar!

Roar, roar, roar!

This walrus-hunting assembly was extremely lively; almost every strong Chukchi man had made a harvest and returned fully loaded.

This must be the biggest grand event of the year for these Chukchi people.

Men and women, old and young, gathered together, eating raw walrus meat.

Zhai Shiqing watched quietly, and the people she brought with her did not even dare to breathe loudly.

Although they were the Dark Night Legion, facing these guys who drank blood and ate raw flesh, they likely had no confidence at all.

The reason was simple.

When their long spears pierced into the bodies of the walruses, they were steady, accurate, and ruthless, without the slightest deviation.

Their physiques, their strength, their agility, were all top-notch...

"Good heavens..."

"Savages really do exist!"

Zhai Shiqing wiped her face with snow, took a deep breath, and tried hard to calm herself down.

In fact, legends about savages had always existed among the common people of Longyan. The closest encounter with them was during that trip Liu Zheng took to Liaodong, when Qiao Yuan used those savages to capture people for sale, and later used the savages to trip up Liu Zheng's troops. Those savages had long since been turned into various stories by busybodies and spread throughout Longyan.

But seeing it for real today, Zhai Shiqing was still very shocked.

Too fierce!

Although these people had not undergone formal military training, anyone could see that their combat strength was definitely not something ordinary humans could achieve.

Of course.

What she did not know was that these Chukchi people were actually the same race as that group of savages in Liaodong. To put it bluntly, they were Jurchen.

The Chukchi were originally a branch of the Jurchen, but because of their livelihood, they had to travel to the Kamchatka Peninsula, the easternmost end of the Earth, to make a living. In previous historical records, they belonged to the Beishan Savage, living in the area west of the Outer Khingan and the Henggun River, and were of the same origin as the Oroqen. Later, they migrated northward continuously, assimilating a portion of the Yukaghir and the Eskimo, which then formed a new ethnic group: the Chukchi.

Influenced by their geography, the Chukchi had always lived by hunting and herding deer.

Regarding the legends of the Chukchi...

One must mention the Cossack Cavalry of Tsarist Russia again. In fact, the Cossack Cavalry were not regular troops before; they were a group of serfs and poor people among the East Slavic who, unable to bear the oppression and enslavement, armed themselves and began to kill and plunder in the Don River and Dnieper River basins, forming an illegal armed group.

Because they grew up on the Eastern Europe Grassland, they were naturally full of wildness, skilled in mounted archery, and used long spears and long sabers as if they were extensions of their own arms. This made them invincible on Slavic land. Even Napoleon once said, "If I had Cossack Cavalry in my troops, I would use them to sweep across the entire world."

It was precisely because of the ferocity and super combat strength of the Cossack Cavalry that Tsarist Russia discovered their utility and began using money and land to buy off the upper echelons and Noble of the Cossacks, which allowed the Cossacks to officially become a regular force of the Russian Army.

Since then, the glory of the Cossacks became unstoppable, expanding territory for Tsarist Russia and achieving countless military exploits, claiming to be invincible globally.

However...

In 1556, Tsarist Russia began to invade the Siberian Khanate, and a powerful Cossack Cavalry began the conquest of Siberia. Besides Tsarist Russia's obsession with territory, the reason they attacked the Chukchi regardless of the cost was for the Chukchi's treasure: walrus tusk!

Walrus tusk was a rare treasure that was very popular among the Noble class in Europe.

However...

The powerful Tsarist Russia met its Waterloo here.

After encountering the resistance of the Chukchi, Tsarist Russia issued an angry order, sending the Cossack Cavalry to crusade against the Chukchi, and everyone thought it would be an easy task. But unexpectedly, in this battle, the Chukchi actually utilized the terrain and flexible combat methods to directly kill the leader of this unit, Shestakov, and captured weapons and Flag as trophies on the spot, returning in triumph.

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This battle, full of humiliation, finally enraged the Tsar.

The Tsar ordered a slaughter of the Chukchi to begin. A large force marched into the territory of the Chukchi, killing 1,000 Chukchi in a row and seizing more than 40,000 reindeer... This battle also made the Chukchi bloodthirsty, forming a deep blood feud with Tsarist Russia.

One victory made Tsarist Russia overconfident.

Two years later, Pavlutsky led 500 Cossack Cavalry and other mixed legions, intending to launch a "Human Elimination Plan" against the Chukchi. However, at this moment, the Chukchi miraculously disappeared. As a result, because the front line was too long, the logistics pressure on the Russian Army doubled, becoming their heaviest burden.

Everyone thought the Chukchi were afraid. However, they did not know that the Chukchi had already quietly gathered a Suicide Squad of 500 tribesmen, intending to launch a fatal blow against the Russian Army.

The Chukchi used small groups of tribesmen to lure the Russian Army in; the Russian Army fell into the trap and pursued them all the way. Just at this moment, the earth shook and the mountains swayed, the sky collapsed and the ground cracked; the Chukchi's ambush troops were like divine soldiers descending from heaven, like fierce tigers coming down the mountain, pouncing toward the Russian positions like the wind. This mixed legion, with the Cossack Cavalry as its main body, was completely wiped out.

Afterward, Tsarist Russia and the Chukchi engaged in a tug-of-war that lasted for a century.

It can be said.

The reason Tsarist Russia did not make much progress in the Far East was because the Chukchi had been holding them back!

Otherwise...

Tsarist Russia would not have needed to wait for their navy to be built; they would have long since pointed their swords at Longyan!

Today, the Chukchi still live under the terrifying butcher's knife of Tsarist Russia...

This was why Liu Zheng believed that the Chukchi were usable!

When Zhai Shiqing first set out, she was actually dismissive.

Because she heard that the Chukchi had only 30,000 people in total...

30,000 people, what could they fight with?

But when she saw the Chukchi who were now truly appearing before her eyes, her view changed.

Strong!

Every one of them was a natural special forces soldier!

Some were even much more formidable than the members of the Dark Night Legion.

However...

Usable is usable.

How to use them?

Liu Zheng had long made arrangements in this regard. So, before Zhai Shiqing came here, they had already prepared a large pile of gifts.

First, cotton; second, strong spirits; third, weapons.

These three things were what the Chukchi lacked the most.

Cotton, naturally, went without saying; the northeasternmost end of the Earth was practically a polar region, and the need for warmth was very strong. Strong spirits were naturally also used to ward off the cold. As for weapons, if their long spears were replaced with ones made of Refined Steel, what kind of improvement would their combat strength receive?

Everything had been arranged.

But Zhai Shiqing still dared not show herself.

She was waiting for an opportunity, a turning point. Recently, pop-ups have been severe; please click to download to avoid pop-ups.