There was such a nation in the north of the Ming Dynasty. They liked killing and eating raw meat with blood. When encountering foreign enemies, they would risk their lives to defend their homeland.

There is such a nation in the north of Ming Dynasty . They like killing and eating raw meat with blood. When encountering foreign enemies, they can risk their lives to defend their homeland. The rulers of the Ming Dynasty were well aware of their power, so they adopted a gentle policy, which made them surrender.

According to the records of Ming History , this nation is called "Beishan Jurchen", which is Chukchi people .

However, when Tsarist Russia rose and advanced eastward, Tsarist Russia's army encountered the Chukchi people head-on. The Russian army that swept all the way did not take them seriously. However, no one expected that this nation would confront Tsarist Russia for more than a century, and finally forced the Tsar to recognize their independent status.

Although a few simple sentences reflect the bravery of the Chukchi people, the legendary stories of the Chukchi people are worthy of study by the world.

Very brave and fierce, unable to avoid

In the early eighteenth century, in the extremely cold area of ​​the Chukotka Peninsula in what is now Siberia, Russia, the Chukotka people broke away from the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty due to internal reasons of the Ming Dynasty. But Russia has grown and pushed eastwards.

Although Russia included the area where the Chukotka people live in its territory, the Chukotka people did not recognize it, and then the two sides launched a battle that lasted for more than a century.

In fact, the Chukchi people have been living in Siberia as early as the Mesolithic Age. As we all know, Siberia is close to the Arctic Ocean , and cold air and air-conditioning pour into it all year round. Most people cannot survive in that kind of extreme weather all year round.

However, the reason why the Chukchi people were able to take root in Siberia was because reindeer provided them with a lot of help. Reindeer are large and not afraid of the cold. They can not only be used as a means of transportation, but also an important source of food and warmth for the Chukchi people.

Of course, in addition to eating venison, fishing at sea is also the main source of food.

However, in addition to solving the problem of food and clothing, they also face attacks from wild beasts. In the areas where they live, beasts such as polar bears , brown bears, and wolverines will often attack them.

However, the stubborn and tenacious Chukchi people are brave enough to fight. Even if a lone person encounters these ferocious beasts, this person will pick up a weapon and bravely rush forward to fight the ferocious beasts.

Although many Chukchi people lost their lives as a result, the ferocity engraved in their bones made them fearless. Even after successfully killing beasts, they would eat the flesh and blood of these beasts raw to express their anger.

This is how they treat ferocious beasts. If they encounter an invasion from a foreign enemy, they will be even more ferocious, like the god of death, determined to kill all the invading enemies.

Because of this, no matter how powerful the surrounding countries are, they dare not easily provoke Yaksha country.

However, Russia at the beginning of the 18th century did not believe in evil. It believed that the Chukotka people, whose weapons were backward and sparsely populated, were little Kami and could be easily defeated.

However, in the next hundred years, Russia saw how powerful the Chukotka people were.

Hundreds of years of confrontation, and finally compromise

In 1701 AD, the Russian army advanced eastward and discovered the Chukotka people. Then Russia sent elite cavalry to raid a Chukchi tribe and directly bulldozed 13 Chukchi tents.

Faced with the brutal massacre by the Russian expeditionary force, the Chukotka people, numbering less than ten thousand, launched a counterattack. Judging from the number of people and the size of weapons on both sides, the Chukchi people's approach is tantamount to hitting an egg against a stone.

Faced with the provocation of the Chukotka people, Russia smiled slightly. As the saying goes, "You can't kill a chicken with a butcher's knife." Moreover, Russia's northern war is not over yet, so Russia sent Cossack cavalry with advanced weapons to strangle the Chukotka people.

However, the two sides fought for 29 years, and the Cossacks never won. Eventually the Cossacks gave up and reported decades of fighting to Russia.

Russia has forgotten this matter. 29 years have passed, and the Chukotka people have not yet been conquered. This makes Russia very angry and very surprised. You must know that the Cossack cavalry has excellent combat effectiveness. They have repeatedly made military exploits during Russia's eastward expansion and have never suffered a defeat.

However, the Chukchi people, with less than 10,000 people, were able to withstand the Cossack cavalry for 29 years.

In 1730 AD, the angry Tsar sent General Starkev to lead troops to encircle and suppress the Chukchi people. In this battle, the Chukchi people underestimated the enemy, and more than 2,000 Chukchi people were killed.

Starkov returned to Moscow happily and threatened to completely annihilate the Chukotka people the next year. As the saying goes, "Every bite makes you wiser." When Starkov came back the next year, the Chukotka people immediately hid themselves.

Starkov searched everywhere without success, and was about to return when the Chukchi suddenly came from behind. The Russian army had just transferred its troops, and a large number of Chukchi people appeared in front.

In this battle, the entire Russian army was wiped out, and General Starkov was shot dead on the spot.

This time it was the Tsar's turn to be dumbfounded. He never expected that the seemingly straightforward Chukchi people could actually use the art of war. But no matter how hard the bone is, it must be gnawed, otherwise where will the face of Russia be put?

From 1731 to 1822, Russia sent large armies to encircle and suppress the Chukchi people many times. However, they were either lured deep into the enemy and then completely wiped out, or they were ambushed during the march. And the other party is wandering around the white Siberian land like a ghost.

In the later period, the Russian soldiers reached the point where they "turned pale". All Russian soldiers who participated in the encirclement and suppression of the Chukchi people would write a suicide note in advance and give it to their families.

On the contrary, the Chukchi people not only won continuously, but their population also increased, from less than 10,000 people to about 12,000 people.

In 1822, Russia, which had been confronting the Chukotka people for more than a century, made the physically and mentally exhausted Tsar completely give up on the idea of ​​conquering the Chukotka people.

It is hard to imagine that Russia, a huge fighting nation, was helpless in the face of the Chukotka people, who numbered only about 10,000 people. They fought for more than a century without conquering them.

In the end, Tsarist Russia was forced to recognize the independent status of the Chukotka people.

In fact, relevant information is also recorded in ancient books not only in Russia, but also in China, and they are all full of fear. For example, after the Chukchi people established the Ancient Yaksha Kingdom during the Tang Dynasty period, the Tang Dynasty learned about the Ancient Yaksha Kingdom from the king of Liugui Kingdom .

According to the historical records of the Tang Dynasty, the people of the ancient Yasha Kingdom all had green faces, fangs, broken hair and tattoos. Even though the number of its citizens is less than 10,000, it has the reputation of "no more than 10,000 yakshas, ​​but no more than 10,000 people are invincible".

The Tang dynasty beat Turks to the ground, but it wrote such a fearful evaluation of the Chukchi people. It is really rare in history.

Summary, thinking behind

the fighting history of the Chukchi people is really exciting, and it also allows us to see the helplessness of the Chukchi people. For Russia, even a one-to-one population exchange will not affect Russia's development at all.

The Chukchi people are different. They cannot fail even once. As long as they fail once, it will be the end of the family and the people. It was under such strong pressure that Chukotka achieved the miracle of being undefeated against Russia for a century.

Reference materials: "Old Tang Book", "Russian History"