At dusk, a group of Tungus people wearing roe deer leather robes and roe deer leather hats with only two eyes exposed and snowboards appeared next to the camp.

In front of them was a local guide of the rescue team, and he was followed by several Yakuts.

"This is our friend."

Through the translation, Li Xin learned that the group of people dressed like a large silly roe deer were originally from the Ewenks nearby. The Tungus tribe in Siboer was basically the same, and there were no obstacles to communication. Moreover, there were nearby natives who were translators as guides, and Li Xin quickly figured out the identity of the visitor.

They were indeed Ewenki people, but they claimed to be from the Aoluguya tribe, which did not belong to any of the three Ewenki tribes. It turned out that they lived in the Lena River Basin in their early years, and later gradually moved southward. This small branch of theirs moved to the foot of Daxingan Mountain, the upper reaches of the Shileka River in the upper reaches of Heilongjiang.

Aolugu Yatungus means a place with dense poplar forests. They are close to the tribe of Solei and are also a deer tribe. They make a living by hunting and fishing reindeer.

"They are here with a Wulilen, with about 700 people." Solei told the teacher.

Wulilen is an organizational unit of the Aoluguya tribe, which is equivalent to Mao Guoan in the Solei tribe. One Wulilen is a small clan organization unit, which is composed of multiple families.

These people were very happy to see Li Xin's team. It is rare to see outsiders when they stayed at the foot of Daxingan Mountain, especially such a team of up to five or six hundred people. Especially when they heard that there were still many of them in the team from the Lu tribe, they were even more excited.

The team leader was an old man named Agdi, who was also the seven hundred-man Wulilen's new Mamalan, the leader of this small tribe.

The entire Wulilen is composed of more than a dozen families with blood ties, and Agdi is elected by parents of various families. The people of the Aoluguya tribe respect the elderly the most, so the leaders are generally old people, and they respect warriors. Therefore, the selected old people were once the bravest hunters in Wulilen.

Xinmamalan is the grandmaster of the entire Wulilen. He arranged Wulilen's hunting, distribution, family meetings, and even accommodation, clothing, weddings and funerals.

In their traditional concept, the hunting ground is dominated by the mountain god, so the prey is also publicly owned, reindeer, hunting tools, birch bark boats, sleds, and all are public property of Wulilen. Everyone hunts together, cooperates in their ability to share their harvests.

Those best hunters would rather give up less prey, which is a kind of honor. For the elderly and widows, they can get more care.

In short, they are still in a commune era.

The people of the Aoluguya tribe were hospitable. When Li Xin and the others passed by, they rushed to invite everyone to stay in their village. Li Xin refused kindly, and at this time Agdi also hoped to exchange some items with them.

Agdi brought a lot of deer furniture and skins, including the precious black sable, black fox skin, white bear skin, etc.

Li Xin took out some tea, sugar, wine, tobacco and salt in exchange for it.

"We are going to the east, and the Jurchens are oppressing our fellow Sorens. We have received their letters of help and are now going to rescue them. This is a respectable gentleman from the Han Empire in the south and a brave general. On behalf of the Han Empire, he summoned the tribes near Lake Baikal, recruited many voluntary warriors, organized this rescue team, and took us to rescue Sorens." Sore said to the old man Agdi.

"Han people, I know that I, Egedu Ama, have left the mountains, went south to the Mongolian grasslands, and even traveled through the Mongolian grasslands, and reached a farther south. There is no ice and snow all year round here. It is warmer, and there are no such many mountains and dense forests. But there are countless stone houses and city walls built with countless bricks and stones. It surrounds many people who cannot count. Oh, there are Han people there."

Agdi looked memory-like.

"When I came back, I told me that there were no reindeer in the Han people, but they had countless people, but they could not beat the Mongols or the Jurchens."

Solei explained to Li Xin that Egduama means uncle.

Li Xin did not expect that someone had visited the Central Plains in this northern tribe.

He smiled and said to Agdi, "The Central Plains is now the Han Empire. Under the wise leadership of His Majesty the Emperor, we defeated the Jurchens and conquered the Mongols. Now the Han Dynasty has opened up to the Baikal Lake. In the near future, the entire Xiboul will be included in the territory of the empire. The Jurchens have been beaten by us like dogs of a broken family and fled to the Heilongjiang River in panic."

Soray translated these words to Agdi.

Agdi was a little surprised after hearing this. He knew the power of the Jurchens. Even the Mongolian tribes in the south paid tribute to the Jurchens. They also received Nibuchu from each year to pay marten fur and deer furniture for taxes.

He had never expected that such a powerful Jurchen man would have been defeated by his uncle who had once described as a weak Han man.

While they were talking, a loud shout suddenly sounded over there. It turned out that the noise of their camping here awakened the black bear that had been spending winter in a nearby tree hole.

The bear, who was awakened, was extremely hungry and rushed to the ice on the river.

Agdi quickly shouted, ready to call his young hunter to hunt the bear.

Agdi's young men are brave hunters. They usually form a tower with five to six people, a fixed hunting group, familiar with each other and cooperate with each other. Even if they are bears, they are not afraid.

However, before he could prepare the bow and arrow, Li Xin had already picked up his gun and set off a few times, and aimed at the big black bear swaying on the ice. Then, with a loud bang, the black bear fell to the ground. Soon, a pool of bright red appeared on the ice under the black bear.

Agdi stood there blankly, and his young men were also stunned.

Such a strong black bear is still a hungry bear. There are no three or five towers to cooperate with each other, and more than a dozen dogs are added, they dare not say that they can hunt them.

But now, the young Han man who seemed extremely weak and afraid of the cold just now easily killed such a big bear at least a hundred steps away.

Incredible.

"What is this?" Agdi had never seen such a thing that would make a loud noise, like lightning.

Li Xin handed the musket in his hand to Agdi. This was an old-style blocking gun with no rifle. It was smaller than the old-style nine-headed bird gun, but it was larger than the ordinary musket. This gun was more sophisticated and higher. If you load a special blocking bullet, killing the black bear with a hundred steps is easy, but this gun weighs fifteen kilograms and is troublesome to load. Especially his bullets are very expensive and are all hand-made.

It is quite unprofitable to use this kind of blocking gun to hunt, but at this time Li Xin's shot still deeply shocked the Tungus people such as Agdi.

They came to the side of the bear together. The bear was dead.

"What a big bear."

Solei and others said with a smile.

But Agdi sighed, "What a great gun."

He finally knew in his heart why the Han people could conquer the Mongols and defeat the Jurchens. No matter how powerful the bow and arrow are, they are not as good as this musket. Such a big black bear was shot to death from a distance. How strong the warrior is, how could he compare to the black bear?

"You can eat it tonight!" Li Xin said with a smile.

The Aoluguya people were very in awe of the bear. They regarded the bear as the totem. Agdi asked Li Xin to kill the bear. Li Xin agreed, and Agdi and the others began to kill the bear. They were more like a ceremony.

They do not say that the bear is dead, but that the bear is sleeping.

Agdi took the lead in kneeling down to the sleeping bear and then began to peel it. When they peeled it, they first cut off the male bear's nap and hung it on the tree, and then took it off. They thought that the bear was honest when it saw the people.

Moreover, they cannot cut the arteries when they peel, but must squeeze blood into the heart.

The bear's neck cannot be cut off at will, but it must first take out the small intestine and circle the bear's head three times before cutting it. Even the peeling knife cannot be called a knife, but a Kergenji. Why do you want to cut it continuously?

After the bear meat was stewed, before the meal started, Agdi invited Li Xin to the throne in the northeast corner, and the rest sat around the fire one by one.

Agdi scooped the boiled bear oil into the fire and poured it into the fire to sacrifice to the God of Fire.

The oil was "sprayed" and the flames burst out. Agdi and his tribe shouted, "The fire laughed, the fire laughed." Then he imitated the crow's cry in unison - "Gaga". Agdi said again, "It's the crow eating your meat, not the Aoluguya eating your meat." After saying that, he gave each person a portion of the bear oil, and everyone started to eat meat after drinking it.

According to their custom, whenever you hunt a bear, all members of Wulilen must eat bear meat together. They cannot finish it at one time, and then eat it again for a second until they are finished.

Fortunately, there are many people in this camp, with hundreds of people, and no matter how big the bear is, it can be eaten in one meal.

However, Agdi did not let people eat bear hearts, heads, eyes, livers and lungs, because these things were buried in the wind.

There are two ribs on the upper right rib and three ribs on the lower left rib, and two ribs on the lower left rib.

These must be tied with birch bark and then tied with willow branches six roads. Head eastward, buried on the beam between two larch trees set up in advance, and burial was carried out. Those who participated must pretend to cry and toast Xiong Jingyan, which is similar to the funeral ceremony of the elderly.

Li Xin had a unique black bear meal and felt a little sorry for the four big bear paws. At this time, he already knew that the Aoluguya people regarded the bear as their totem, and even believed that the bear was their ancestor.

Li Xin respects their traditions, which touched Agdi very much.

After the meal, Agdi made a request.

"We are also Ewenk people, and the Soren tribe is also our fellow tribe. Now they are bullied and oppressed by the Jurchens. Even the Han people, Mongolians, and Yakut people are willing to rescue them. Naturally, we cannot sit by and watch. I am going to take twenty young men from Tatan with you to the Shileka River."

Twenty towers are one hundred and twenty young hunters.

Li Xin thought about this request and finally agreed. They had walked more than 2,000 miles along the way, and there might be less than 2,000 miles to go next. It had been spent too much time on the road. He was afraid that it would be too late. It might be too late to help Sauron evacuate, so he could only try his best to bring more people to help them fight off the Jurchens.

Agdi took the boys back and said he wanted to make some preparations.

The next morning, Agdi came as promised. He led the team himself, with a total of 20 young hunters, instead of the twenty towers and more than a hundred people who had agreed to have.

They also came on a sled pulled by reindeer.

Agdi also led the nine-headed white deer to Li Xin, and the nine-headed white deer pulled nine sled cars.

"This is a white reindeer, a gift from the gods. Now we will pay tribute to the Emperor of the Han Dynasty by these white deer blessed by the gods. Please give it to the Emperor of the Han Dynasty on our behalf."

In addition to the nine rare white reindeer, the nine sled cars also contain many deer furniture, musk, deer whip, deer heart blood, deer fetus, deer tendons, as well as sable fur, bear skin, ginseng, fungus, hazelnuts and many other precious things.

After returning to the village last night, Agdi held a meeting with Wulilen. He told all the things he encountered during the day, and then proposed to pay tribute to the Han Dynasty and take people to follow the team to rescue Sauron. This proposal was unanimously agreed by everyone.

Agdi also increased the number of people going to support, and finally chose 200 young men to go.

He took out a lot of precious items as tributes to the Han emperor, and at the same time he also took a batch of deer and other items, hoping to exchange them for some thunder from Li Xin.

Li Xin was very happy to ask the Aoluguya people to attach the tribute and agreed. However, when they called the muskets a thunder and wanted to exchange some, they did not refuse.

In the end, he generously gave two hundred guns to the Aoluguya tribe, and asked every hunter who went to the expedition to match a gun. He also gave Agdi an old obstacle and gave him two hand guns.

Under Li Xin's guidance, Agdi and his warriors learned to shoot in a hurry. When they finally fired the first shot with their own hands, Agdi's face flushed and shouted excitedly, "With these thunders given to us by the great man, the vicious Jurchens no longer have to be afraid!"

Li Xin thought something, and he pulled the old man Sore and Agdi aside and asked them how many tribal villages there were on the 500-mile road to Nebuchu here, near the banks of the river.

"Does the teacher want to visit them?"

Solei looked at Li Xin, then at Agdi carrying a gun, and also understood a little.

Li Xin nodded, "The time spent on the road was much longer than we expected at the beginning. When we arrived at the Shileka River, we were afraid that it would not be too late to withdraw the Solon tribe. After the itinerary along the way and the contact with the tribes along the way, I think we have great potential. If we can go east, we will recruit the tribes and villagers from the villages along the way and move east together. When we arrive at the Shileka River, maybe we can have an army of two or three thousand people."

In addition to this fully armed rescue army of 500 people, Li Xin still carried three thousand muskets and a large amount of ammunition. If he used these three thousand muskets and many swords, guns, bows and arrows he carried, it would be no problem to arm the recruited troops along the way.

After thousands of fierce Tungus tribe hunters were equipped with steel swords, steel arrows and muskets made by the great man, they no longer need to be afraid of the Eight Banners of the Jurchens.

As soon as this idea came out, Li Xin became more and more determined. Why did I just want to persuade the Solon tribe to retreat?

Why should I withdraw? Why should I give up the vast area of ​​the upper reaches of Heilongjiang between the Daxinganling Mountains and the Daxingan Mountains? Why should I retreat from the Jurchens? We can organize and arm the young hunters here, and rely on the hunters' familiarity with this place, so that we can completely defend this place and prevent the Jurchens from being involved in the upper reaches of Heilongjiang.
Chapter completed!