Chapter 96 Forced Conscripts to Expand the Army Seven
Liu De didn't know about the Russians, but Duncan would know. [] Zhao Qiang needed Duncan to mark the movements of the Russians on Liu De's imperfect map. Specifically, all the Russians he knew were established in the Far East.
Which cities he had visited, what defensive forces they had, etc. In addition, he also urgently needed to know where Nerchinsk was, because the temptation of silver mines was too great, and since the Nerchinsk area was rich in silver mines, there must be other mineral deposits.
There are also quite a few. It would be even better if there were iron ore, saltpeter, sulfur, etc. These would be treasures for the armed army.
Although Shouyi City has been separated from the jurisdiction of Ning Guta, it is still the territory of the Qing Dynasty in name. It is too dangerous to establish an anti-Qing base here. It may be attacked by the Qing army at any time. Therefore, after knowing his position, Zhao Qiang thought
We can have a safer base to avoid being trapped in Shouyi City. Once the Qing army becomes stronger, the buffer zone can avoid the risk of the entire army being annihilated, and it also prevents the Russians and the Qing army from eating from the same bowl. What should I say, Zhao Qiang
What we are doing now is to steal the food of the Russians. This kind of impolite behavior will definitely not be welcomed by others. As the saying goes, how can we allow others to sleep soundly on the side of a collapse? There is no room for two tigers in one mountain. Zhao Qiang never
He imagined that the Russians would sing to him a song "Guests from afar", just like the song he wanted to sing to the Russians: "Good mountains, good water, good places, all the roads are wide, friends come with good wine, if the jackal is
When it comes, it will be greeted with shotguns.”
Zhao Qiang treats the Russians as wolves, so he cannot wishfully think that the Russians treat him as his friends. If the Qing army uses heavy troops against these "Wu rebels" who have rebelled again, Zhao Qiang has no doubt that the Russians will enthusiastically attack him from behind.
He's going to take a stab.
Looking at the map, the safe place is definitely not the Northeast in the south, nor is it the Heilongjiang River Basin, because there are both Qing troops and Russians, and the two sides are in a stalemate. Zhao Qiang's men are only asking for trouble if they go there and interfere.
, and to the north, the virgin forest is sparsely populated. You can plunge into it and walk for several days without seeing a living person. If you establish an anti-Qing base there, it will be safe, but I am afraid that from now on you will have to live in a paradise like the local indigenous people.
More than a hundred years later, he became a serf in the "great" Tsarist Russia.
The indigenous residents of Siberia are the additional troops for Zhao Qiang's plan, but he does not want to actually rule their hometown, but wants to move them all to his own territory. He does not have the energy to attack three or four hundred people with such a small number of people.
Effectively occupy and rule 10,000 square kilometers of land.
The matter of establishing effective rule in Siberia is left to future generations. As long as I drive away the Russians, recruit all the local indigenous people to use troops against the Manchus, successfully enter the customs and overturn the Manchus, and then transfer the Han people from the interior of the customs to enrich the Far East.
It's not something you can just do if you want to. Even if you don't have time to do it, just set a national policy and let the successor implement it, Zhao Qiang thought.
Which place is the safest? After much deliberation, only the few cities built by the Russians far away from the Heilongjiang River Basin are suitable for Zhao Qiang's "immigration" operation, and the first and most tempting one is Nerchinsk. In the future, Shouyi City will only serve as a
A front line was transferred to use, and all the manpower of all ethnic groups were moved to Nerchinsk, and then the surrounding Russians were forced away, forming a large rear area across Siberia. In this way, there is an outlet to the sea in the east, and there are many people in the deep mountains and old forests.
Primitive trees are the most suitable for building large ships, and a powerful navy can be established. And to the west, it borders Outer Mongolia, where there are Erut Mongols who are unwilling to be oppressed by the Manchus. You can deal with them and build
The national united front can jointly deal with the Manchus. Then they can go to Xinjiang with the Mongols to carry out "good diplomacy". Junggar's power cannot be used. If used well, it can be the enemy of the Qing army. If everything goes well, it can even be
Go further to Tibet to attract anti-Qing allies. Those lamas and Tibetan troops are eager to have someone lead them to fight the Manchus. In this way, the entire northwest and the Northeast Pass will be connected together. As for how to "separate the dirty parts" after the Manchus overthrow the Qing Dynasty.
"It's not them who has the final say.
In Zhao Qiang's eyes, even if it is in exchange for their alliance on the condition of supporting the Mongols in rebuilding the "Great Yuan Empire" and supporting Galdan in declaring the territory as king in Xinjiang, it is worth it. No matter what treaty is signed in black and white, it will be done afterwards.
At worst, the principal will just tear it in half.
Treaties are just a means of war deception. When one's own side is weak, the treaty must be observed. When one's side is strong, the treaty can be abandoned. An alliance is also the same as a treaty, not to mention an alliance of alien races. This is a thousand-year-old saying.
: If you are not of the same kind as me, your heart must be different!
Zhao Qiang didn't know much about Erut Mongolia. He only knew that they brought a lot of trouble to the Qing Dynasty during the Kangxi period. However, Zhao Qiang knew Galdan very well. Speaking of it, he was indeed a master of great talents and great strategies.
, quite remarkable. According to historical records, when Galdan conquered the Qing Dynasty in the east, he actually brought only 40,000 troops in total. After that, he fought many battles with the Mongolian tribes in the east who were close to the Qing Dynasty, and almost won every battle. Finally, Kangxi was forced to sit down.
They couldn't stand it any longer, so the two of them had a fight in Ulan Butong. In fact, it can't be said that they had a fight. Before the fight, Kangxi used to pretend to be awesome, but when he was about to meet Galdan
, he pretended to be sick and fled back to Beijing. What was ridiculous was that he shamelessly found an excuse to say he had acute typhoid fever.
Galdan later fought a battle with the Qing army in Ulanbutong. At that time, the frontline commander of the Qing army was the traitor Tong Guogang. Galdan won a complete victory in this battle and not only killed Tong Guogang, one of the commanders of the Qing army.
, the corpses of the Qing army who were still killed lay dozens of miles away. And in the end, they calmly organized a retreat under the siege of the Qing army that was several times their own, and successfully broke away from contact. What is ridiculous is that the Qing army suffered losses even though its strength was several times that of the enemy.
It's really shameful that despite outnumbering the enemy and losing many generals, he still had the nerve to declare that he had won a great victory in this battle, and to show it off as Kangxi's so-called major achievement.
However, Galdan was unlucky. It wasn't that he couldn't defeat the Manchus, but he accidentally let his nephew take away Zhungeer's lair and became a lonely ghost of his family. But after Zhaomoduo's battle, he still
He showed his magnanimity and made the Qing army howl with the sacrifice of more than 2,000 men. He is worthy of being a famous general of his generation.
Zhao Qiang doesn't remember exactly when Galdan went to war with the Qing Dynasty, but he estimated that it was around the 30th year of Kangxi's reign, which would be a few years later. Now he may be busy recruiting troops and sharpening his sword in Zhungeer.
Huo Huo. This person must be won over. If we can't unite, we must find a way to prevent him from defeating too quickly. Zhao Qiang is wondering whether he should wait two years to send someone to Zhungeer and properly remind Galdan to be careful of his nephew.
It's really impossible to help him clean up his house.
The enemy of the enemy is my friend, and after the enemy is disintegrated, I will destroy the friend. Before overthrowing the Qing Dynasty, Zhao Qiang does not mind joining forces with any force that can cause trouble for the Qing Dynasty, even the Russians.
, of course, the premise is that the Russians have to be defeated by themselves and become a mercenary alliance.
If Zhao Qiang's plan goes well, it will be a big headache for Kangxi. You must know that he once issued an edict to the world not to build the Great Wall. Zhao Qiang visited that edict in later generations, but he does not remember the full content, but the general meaning is
I still remember it correctly. The main content is: Today, when the Dzunghar Mongols invade, I don’t need to build the Great Wall to defend myself. The Khalkha Mongols who have taken refuge with me are my Great Wall. Besides, building the Great Wall in the previous generations cost a lot of people, and the effect is
It's not necessarily good. So I ordered that the Great Wall will not be built in the future.
In fact, Kangxi did not build the Great Wall, but his real purpose was more sinister. The role of the Great Wall was not to separate the scope of activities of nomadic people and farming people, and to prevent nomadic people from destroying farming areas. This was true in all dynasties. But by the Manchu and Qing Dynasties
Because the Jurchens were born as barbarian hunters, and the Mongolians they relied on were also nomadic peoples. The rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was based on the occupation and destruction of agricultural ethnic areas by nomadic peoples. Why did they build the Great Wall? Are they creating a cocoon for themselves?
Can the Han people use the opportunity of revival to prevent the Mongols, their allies, from entering the pass and quelling the rebellion?
Didn't the Manchus and Qing Dynasties not build the Great Wall? That would be great. The allied forces of all ethnic groups enter the Great Wall from Shanxi today, enter the Pass from Gansu tomorrow, and go to their Longxing land for a walk the day after tomorrow. Just like Huang Taiji used to deal with the Ming Dynasty, they were slow.
Slowly weaken it. When the time comes, we will tell you whether Kangxi will build the Great Wall or not. Aren't you touted as one of the few wise kings in history?
Time waits for no one. It is already May. The scene of the Qing Dynasty and Russia fighting in winter described in Jin Yong's novel "The Deer and the Cauldron" is impossible to appear, because the cold Siberia will be a nightmare for all armies. There are less than four months before the arrival of severe winter.
Month time, if Zhao Qiang cannot possess Nerchinsk and open up the passage between Nerchinsk and Shouyi and even the surrounding areas in these four months, and connect them together, then he can only wait until the spring comes next year and the flowers will bloom. In that case,
The 22nd year of Kangxi became the 23rd year of Kangxi. In the 23rd year of Kangxi, the Qing court's war machine will all turn north. In addition to dealing with Jungar and Erut Mongolia, the largest direction of military deployment will be
They are the Rakshasa people in the far north. Zhao Qiang doesn't want to become a victim of standing in front of the Russians, so he must seize the time to get ahead of the Qing army's massive advance northward, weaken the Russians, and make his own stronger.
Some.
After Zhang Yi was ordered to mention Duncan, Zhao Qiang asked Liu De one more thing, that is, the hundreds of old melon thieves from the Songshan Fort. However, Liu De said that he did not know about it and had never heard Shu Mulu mention it.
Regarding this matter, Zhao Qiang did not continue to ask Liu De when he thought of some of the unofficial stories he had been involved in later generations. Kangxi would not do such a petty theft with great fanfare and command the hundreds of old melon thieves.
Perhaps he was an important figure in the Qing court. Shu Mulu, who was an outlier among the Eight Banners officers, naturally had no way of knowing. He didn't know, and it was even more impossible for Liu De to know.