Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 367
After intimidating a group of Tsarist Russian generals and ending the meaningless nonsense, Suvorov signed his name on the surrender document on behalf of Yaksa's Tsarist Russian army.Correspondingly, the 58-year-old general handed over to Zhao Xin his long sword bestowed by the queen and inlaid with gorgeous gems.

"Your Highness, what do you plan to do with us?"

"General, the scenery here in autumn is nice, and there are few mosquitoes in summer. As for winter, it is more suitable for retirement." Zhao Xin casually looked at the western-style long sword in his hand, put the sword back into its sheath with a "crack", and looked at Suvorov's The eyes continued: "Don't think about anything, let's take your subordinates to repair the earth for a few years first."

"Repair the earth?"

Zhao Xin smiled and did not explain. He believed that Suvorov would understand the meaning of this word in a short time.

It is said that after so many years of fighting in the North Navy, they already have a lot of experience in how to manage the prisoners, so the Yaksa City Prisoner of War Management Department was established on the day the Russian army surrendered, and Wu Siyu was the head of management.

According to the requirements of the Beihai Navy, while the surrendered Russian army left the city and disarmed in batches, it was necessary to hand over to the Beihai Navy the list of supplies in the city, the list of soldiers and officers.

The disarming location was set in an open space surrounded by wooden stakes and ropes outside the east gate of Yaksa City. The Russian army in Yaksa City took companies as units and went out of the city to disarm in batches under the supervision of the North Navy with guns; Then follow the passage drawn by wooden stakes and ropes, and enter the temporary gathering point one kilometer away; the North Navy mobilized four anti-aircraft guns and more than 20 machine guns for surveillance. kill.

After Zhao Xin got the list of materials, he changed into the clothes of ordinary soldiers, mixed with the guard company and entered Yaksa City.When he left Yaksa City, there was not even a hair left in the supplies and arms warehouse in the city.

On the other hand, the Prisoners of War Management Department began to conduct physical examinations on Russian prisoners of war in batches. This work was completed by Wu Xianning and a group of doctors and nurses.Cossacks or Buryats were asked to take off their clothes at the gunpoint of the Northern Navy. The doctors and nurses divided the prisoners into five grades according to their strength.

After completing the inspection and getting dressed, they will enter the next item. This is the most shocking and unbelievable scene for all the Russian prisoners.

Several guys who looked like officers of the Northern Navy were holding a flat black rectangular box in their hands, only about one palm long and half a palm wide.They first spoke to the flat box in a language that the Cossacks could not understand, but then a woman's fluent Russian voice came out of the flat box.

"Name?"

"devil!"

A Cossack yelled, his face full of horror, and he turned to rush out of the rope used as a makeshift barrier.The other Cossack sat down on the ground in shock, clutching the cross on his chest tightly with his right hand, and began to mutter in his mouth.

".There is a blockhouse behind the mountain. I locked the door of the blockhouse and threw the key under the burning white rock Altor in the sea. Neither wizards nor witches, nor monks nor nuns, could see this block. Boulders. The water will not flow away from the ocean, and the yellow sand can't be counted. I, a servant of God, can't be hurt. For the name of the Father, Son and God, Amen."

Two Beihai soldiers outside the rope pointed their guns at the chest of the Cossack who was trying to escape, and shouted angrily: "Stop! Or you will shoot!"

"No! You are a bunch of devils! I curse you!"

"Are these all Tatar magicians? My God, this is terrible! My Lord, I beg your forgiveness."

Amidst the chaotic noise, the weird woman's voice sounded again: "Cossacks, if you don't want to go to hell, just obey my instructions obediently, otherwise you will have no food for three days."

The tone of the "woman" is flat, without any emotional color, and the articulation of the words is also very strange when she speaks, she is jumping out word by word.

A dozen Cossack prisoners were even more frightened at this time. They all stared in horror at the black flat box in the hands of the North Navy officer, and screamed: "God, this is the magic of the Tatars, Holy Mother, God! Oh, please save us!"

Wu Siyu never expected that a few translators would scare the Russian prisoners into such a virtue.

When Zhao Xin arrived in a hurry with the guards, he learned the whole story and said to Wu Siyu, "What a big deal I am. It's a simple matter. Look at me."

Zhao Xin first asked people from the guard company to pick up ten lieutenant officers from the Russian army among the prisoners who lined up. After they got together, Zhao Xin said to these people: "Those who can write Cyrillic fluently raise their hands."

Hula, everyone raised their hands.

Zhao Xin nodded in satisfaction, and continued: "Now I need to register each of you according to the list of soldiers and fill out the ID card. The above content is very simple, you just need to follow the order on the card, clearly, one by one. Write it as planned."

A lieutenant asked at this time: "Your Excellency, what is this card for?"

Zhao Xindao: "From now on, you will have to receive your morning and evening meals by card. If you lose it, you will be hungry."

"Good sir, don't worry, we will let everyone keep it safe." The lieutenant hesitated for a moment, and then asked: "Then, what about the seriously injured?"

"Well, what's your name?"

"Vladimir Kortakov."

"Very well, Lieutenant Kortakov, if you ask me that, you will count and take responsibility for the seriously injured, and I will send someone to follow you."

Zhao Xin glanced at the officers of the Russian army for the last time, and said coldly: "Gentlemen, don't try to play tricks. Just like what those soldiers said, Easterners know magic, which is normal. There are many similar magics. Tell those soldiers that whoever dares to make noise and affect the registration work will be shot.

The prisoner-of-war management system has been posted on the bulletin board inside the east gate of the castle. Those who have completed the registration can only stay in the barracks after returning. They are not allowed to walk around outside, and they must report to the toilet!Anyone who violates the system we have established will execute ten soldiers and one officer. "

After the trembling officers were brought down to do work, Wu Siyu asked, "When do you plan to leave?"

Zhao Xin thought for a while and said, "Wu Xiha and the others have already passed Heilongjiang City, and they should arrive in two days. I guess Liu and the others will be able to arrive in Nerchinsk tomorrow, a town as big as a palm. ?”

That's right, Wu Xiha is coming, accompanied by more than a dozen drivers of the Beihai Town Agricultural Unit.Ever since she knew that Liu Sheng was going to take the troops to Irkutsk, the newly married little Xing Xing decided to come to find her husband.As soon as the young couple got married, they were ordered by Zhao Xin to tear apart for thousands of miles. If they couldn't see each other again this winter, would there be any humanity left?

Wu Siyu said: "This is really tossing."

"Who says it's not. After I've been away for a few days, Yakesa will be handed over to you?" Zhao Xin immediately told him worriedly after asking: "You don't have to show mercy to those animals. The more kind you are, the more they will be. exciting."

"I understand, you can rest assured."

In the evening, Zhao Xin went to Yaksa City with a translator and met Suvorov.

Since the admiral signed the surrender agreement, he has returned to his residence in the castle under the escort of the Northern Navy, and has stayed behind closed doors.He didn't see anyone except the attendants who brought water and food.Of course, when Zhao Xin came, he dared not see him.

After hearing Zhao Xin's intentions and seeing the magic of the translator, Suvorov felt that Zhao Xin was unfathomable. He never thought that there really was "magic" in the world.

"Your Highness, I have something that I don't understand. I hope you can help me."

"Please say."

"Since you Tatars, oh, no, you are Seres, please forgive me. Since you Seres have such amazing magic, why did you lose to those barbaric Tatars more than 100 years ago?"

"There are always many reasons for the decay and decline of a dynasty. Back then, the Crusaders still held the True Cross and the Holy Grail, and weren't they driven out of Jerusalem by Saladin?"

"Okay. Since you don't want to say it, then I won't ask. I understand what you mean, and I will let the officers appease the soldiers. To be honest, I just think this magic box is really magical, but if I really want to say it What relationship does it have with the devil, this needs to be judged by the people of the church."

When Zhao Xin got up to say goodbye and was about to go out, Suvorov suddenly asked, "Your Highness, are you really going to attack Irkutsk?"

"General, it's already this time, do I need to lie to you?"

"Winter is coming soon, you can't get there, even if your boat runs fast."

"Then please wait and see."

Seeing Zhao Xin's full confidence, Suvorov couldn't figure it out even if he broke his head.In his view, it is simply a fantasy for the Northern Navy to cross Lake Baikal to attack and occupy Irkutsk in winter.Not to mention whether Irkutsk has made defensive preparations, it will take at least several months to get there just by going this way.

First of all, you have to walk four hundred miles from Yaksa to reach the boundary marker, which is the confluence of the Ergun River and the Shileka River, and the main stream of Heilongjiang is formed by the confluence of the Shileka River and the Ergun River.There, the fleet will turn into the Shilka River and travel [-] miles to Nerchinsk; then travel another [-] miles, turn from the Shilka River to the Yinguoda River, and then arrive at Chita.

Thought this would do the trick?There is still a long way to go, the biggest difficulty lies behind!
From Chita, ships can no longer sail westward, but have to go through thousands of miles of virgin forests and wilderness swamps until they reach Ulan-Ude, and then turn into the waterway of the Selenga River and pass through the lake of Baikal. In the south, it enters the Angara River and finally reaches Irkutsk.

According to Suvorov's estimate, even if the Northern Navy can reach Ulan-Ude safely, the Selenga River will freeze, and the howling north wind and extreme cold will sweep everything on Lake Baikal, and humans and animals will be unable to survive. pass.

The question is, is Zhao Xin a normal person?For this operation, he "tossed back and forth" since he first arrived in Khabarovsk, just to prepare a super land transport vehicle.With this means of transport, the North Navy can transport all 1000 people to Ulan-Ude in just five days.After that, everything is simple.

At the same time, Chita was more than 1000 miles away.

The name Chita comes from the Ewenki language, which means "black soil", and actually refers to the rich local coal.

Ivan Jacobi, who had just finished his local inspection and was about to return to Irkutsk, was full of ambition at the moment. The breakthrough of the Tsarist Russian army on Heilongjiang in 1788 gave him an urgent desire to return to St. Petersburg and ask the empress for rewards. He hoped that the empress would send more troops and serfs from the west to the lower reaches of Heilongjiang.

Although the advance team led by Major General Alexandrov suffered a failure, Ivan Jacobi believed that with Suvorov guarding Yaksa, the Qing people would not be able to attack there this winter.

100 years ago, 2400 Qing troops under the leadership of Heilongjiang General Sabusu besieged Yaksa for several months, and finally had no choice but to withdraw their troops.It was not until the signing of the "Nerchinsk Agreement" that the Russian army withdrew.In the siege battle, the biggest enemy of the Russian army was actually scurvy.

At this time, his victory report document had been sent to St. Petersburg by his subordinate Yevgeny day and night, and it should be almost here.This kid is really lucky!To be honest, if I wasn't too busy with my affairs, it would be better to go back in person.

Ivan Jacobi seems to have seen that he will be summoned by Her Majesty the Queen in the Winter Palace in the future, and everyone will praise him as a hero who opened up the territory of Russia!

Compared to Earl, he felt that the title "Duke" was more suitable for him.

"We sincerely hope you have a smooth journey, my lord." Chita's chief executive and local military officers stood outside the carriage and bowed to salute with flattering smiles.

"Well, once there is a letter from Nerchinsk, you will send someone to send it to me immediately. Her Majesty is also waiting for good news from the general."

"Please don't worry about this, I will personally deliver the letter from the general to you."

Ivan Jacobi nodded, and then tapped on the carriage with his cane, signaling the driver to leave.

Winter was coming soon, and he didn't want to stay in a ghostly place like Chita for too long.Compared with Irkutsk, Chita is such a broken place that people can't miss it.Besides, on January 1 next year, the city council that has just been in the city for one year will hold a celebration.

In fact, these cities in Eastern Siberia, whether it is Irkutsk, Chita, or Ulan-Ude and Nerchinsk, have gradually developed from a prison to villages and towns.Once there is a prison, there must be a garrison, and if there are prisoners, they must be made to work, and when the rhubarb trade with the next-door Daiqing rises, the spring of the small village of the prison finally comes.

Someone asked if there is a gross relationship between occupying land and prisons?

It's a big deal!The Cossack expedition team was not a good one, they were hungry and even ate human flesh, and the officers who led the team never expected this group of people to be honest; so they went all the way south along the Yenisei River Go and build prisons along the way.

Didn't I say it before, in the process of Tsarist Russia's conquest of the Kamchatka Peninsula, in addition to the bloody killing of the Kamchatka people, it was also accompanied by the betrayal of the Cossacks.Fleeing in front, chasing behind, chasing chasing Huh?The entire lower Kamchatka has been turned around, the exploration mission is completed, and the fog of war has been swept away!

To make a digression, stop complaining about why Kangxi didn't occupy Lake Baikal in the first place, and don't always talk about the Anbei Protectorate in the Tang Dynasty.Regardless of whether it is west or east of Lake Baikal, it has never belonged to the Central Plains Dynasty.

Since it has been a Jimi area since ancient times, the practice is to use the barbarians to control the barbarians; the Central Plains dynasty has always had little interest in this place, and they don't even send officials, so what is the separation?
The feudal dynasties of all dynasties in China wanted to turn Jimizhou into "Huayi as Xia", all of which had to use large armies, labor divisions and expeditions, exhausting national power, and it took several or even ten generations to earn it.The three generations of Emperor Kangxi and Yonggan have fought dozens of battles for more than 100 years, costing tens of millions of taels in the treasury, and mobilizing the power of the whole country to bring the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains into effective rule.Once the national strength of the eldest dynasty weakened, it immediately fell into turmoil.If it weren't for Zuo Zongtang of later generations, China's western border would have become outside the Yumen Pass.

　There was a typo in the last paragraph yesterday, it was not the Lena, but the Yenisei.There is only one Angara River flowing northward from Lake Baikal, and then northward and then westward, it flows through the southern part of the Central Siberian Plateau and joins the Yenisei River near the village of Strelka.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)