Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1994 The vision of founding a nation

Port Harge, September 1687, 9.

The light rain washed away the mud and dust on the stone road. The soldiers packed their packages and carried their weapons. After saying goodbye to their friends, they lined up and embarked on the journey.

They are soldiers of the Black Sea Detachment, a total of about 700 people, almost all infantry, composed of a mixture of Portuguese garrison troops and temporarily recruited volunteers.Just now, two 650-ton flute-shaped transport ships belonging to the mainland came to the port. Gao Wengang ordered the temporary requisition, and sent these more than [-] soldiers and a large amount of military supplies along the Black Sea and the Sea of ​​Azov. Go eastward with the shore current, land at the mouth of the Don River, and find a way to join the command of Lieutenant Colonel Mao Jun who has already gone there.

This is still the first batch.After the ships confiscated by Mr. Mao return, there will be a second batch of about 500 people boarding the ships and heading east.Gao Wengang can only do this at this meeting. He has no other choice after being generalized by the army. He can only send all the troops of the Black Sea Detachment to strengthen the strength of Maobu. Don't let it have any accidents. To facilitate the search for the Oirat Mongols, after all, there are more people and more power.

In the past few days, Gao Wengang has been staying in the courtyard of the county government. While dealing with accumulated official duties, he also took time to write a letter to the nomadic Oirat Mongols in the Don River and the Volga River Basin ( That is, the Kalmyks) provided land and a vision plan for independent statehood.

He has learned that this part of the Mongols should be the Turghut tribe of Moxi Mongolia. At the end of the 16th century and the beginning of this century, because of the rise of the neighboring Choros tribe (that is, Junggar Mongolia), the Turghut tribe who was afraid of being annexed by it The Hute tribe engulfed some of the herdsmen of the Heshuote tribe and the Duerbert tribe, and the whole family moved westward, entering the Volga River Basin as nomads.

This land originally belonged to the territory of the Astrakhan Khanate. In the middle of the 16th century, its country was destroyed by Russia. The Russians extended their power to the Caspian Sea and the lower reaches of the Volga River.However, due to the limitation of strength, the Russians have moved a lot of people and Cossack military households here for more than a century, but they still have not completed their exploration of this vast area. control of the land.Even the local Russian serfs and Cossacks rose up against the tsar's rule because of Moscow's excessive greed and excessive expropriation.

Everyone remembers that about 20 years ago, the uprising led by Stepan Razin broke out in the Don River Basin, and then spread all the way to the Volga River Basin, until it reached the Caspian Sea. Most of the territories of the Astrakhan Khanate and the Nogai Khanate.In this large-scale uprising, not only the Cossacks, who were dissatisfied with the tsarist rule, rose up to resist, but also the local Tatars, Kalmyks (Turghuts), Bashkirs and other nationalities also participated in one after another, or clearly Joining, or secretly supporting, in short, it took a lot of trouble for the tsar's army to put down the rebellion.

In the past 20 years, there have been no less than three large-scale Cossack or nomad uprisings in the lower reaches of the Volga and Don rivers. Not to mention other small riots and rebellions, they will be staged almost every one or two years. The tsar's conquest of this wild land was still only in name, and there were too many local dissatisfied people.

Take the Mongols of the Torghut tribe as an example. They basically didn’t like the czar, and they didn’t even submit to them in name. They seemed to be an independent nomadic country.It is believed that their "country" currently has 7 to 8 tents, with a population of about 35 to 40. With the characteristics of nomads who are all soldiers, it is possible to pull out 10 people at once when they are fighting for their lives. Therefore, they have turned to Russia People challenge the capital.

You know, like the Crimean Khanate, which is now flourishing on the northern shore of the Black Sea, the main ethnic group in the country is only a few hundred thousand Tatars.This is the result of absorbing many Slavic slaves over the years, otherwise there will be even fewer.Therefore, the Turghut Ministry with a population of 40 to [-] will of course make the Moscow side very afraid, so they have not dared to press hard for many years, so as not to cause a strong rebound from them, and then drive other local nomads to fight together. If the Russian Empire attacks, then the entire lower reaches of the Volga River and even the Don River Basin will be in chaos.

Now the Torghut Ministry is active in a relatively large area, but basically it is in the lower reaches of the Volga River and the Don River, roughly located in the later Russian Federation Astrakhan, Karelia, and Volgograd. From time to time, they will also move to the Rostov and Saratov regions, but the frequency is not much, and the former is generally the main activity area.

Based on the limited information at hand, Gao Wengang learned that the name of the current Great Khan of the Torghut Department is Ayuqi, and he is the fourth generation Great Khan of the Department.That is to say, the Turghut Department has been operating in the lower reaches of the Volga River for three generations since it moved westward.For nearly 100 years, this branch of Moxi Mongolia still maintained its own traditions, believed in Tibetan Buddhism, and insisted not to be assimilated by the surrounding Turkic-speaking green believers, so it was derogatoryly called "Galmank" by those people. ".

Ayuqi Khan is undoubtedly a very tough Khan.Since he ascended the throne in 1672, he has been honest with the tsar, regarded himself as an equal, and resolutely refused to surrender.And it just so happens that Tsarist Russia has been in troubled times these years, fighting Poland and Sweden in the west, fighting the Crimean Tatars in the south, and fighting the Ottoman Empire.Coupled with their poor internal political management methods, sharp domestic class conflicts, peasant riots, Cossack rebellions, etc., they have been unable to concentrate on dealing with the Turghut Ministry, so they have lived a very happy life. Increasingly multiplied, nomadic land is expanding day by day.

However, this kind of happy life should not last for a long time.Gao Wengang has also dealt with Russia for some years, and he is well aware of the potential of this country.The territory is vast, the population is large, the products are rich, and the nation is also tenacious and ruthless. Since the beginning of this century, they have continuously introduced advanced technology and talents from the West, as evidenced by the large group of foreign officers serving in the Russian army.All these have greatly improved the quality of the Russian army - not only the new army such as the shooting army has improved, but the combat effectiveness of the old army has also improved a lot - and it has begun to slowly crush some indigenous khanates or Nomadic tribes, and this is the main reason why they have expanded their territory and conquered tribes in the past 100 years.It was not the Cossacks who conquered Central Asia in history (in fact, they were beaten to the ground by the nomads in Central Asia, so they could only show off their prestige in front of the Manchu Eight Banners), but the hard-working Russian infantry. The backbone of the army's combat effectiveness.

Therefore, as Russia's strength continues to grow, forces in neighboring countries such as the Ukrainian Cossacks, the Crimean Tatars, and the Mongolian Turghuts will basically disintegrate under constant military and political offensives, and be defeated by other countries. annexation.The Crimean Khanate, which persisted for the longest time in history, persisted until the 18th century under the cover of the Ottoman Turks, and the Turghut Ministry also couldn't stay, and directly returned to China.

This time the Russian army went south to besiege the Azov fortress and failed miserably, which was an excellent opportunity to save the fate of the Turghut Ministry.The 20 Russian troops led by Golitsyn were defeated by the Crimeans. The southern provinces were in turmoil, and Moscow's control over the local area was reduced by another level.Especially in the lower reaches of the Don River and the Volga River, which were plowed by the Racine uprising [-] years ago, the local nobles are relatively weak. Once the Tatar cavalry or even the people from the east bank kill them, they may immediately engulf a large number of nomads. Against the rule of the tsar.In this turbulent and chaotic situation, it seems that it is not that difficult to let the Turghut troops leave the dead end of the Volga River Basin and go westward into the Don River Basin and the North Caucasus.

However, there is still a problem, that is, why did Ayuqi Khan of the Turghut Department follow the opinions of your people on the east bank, leave the Astrakhan area that has been in business for several generations, and go to the relatively unfamiliar Don River and the What about the North Caucasus?You know, Ayuqi Khan is a very assertive person. Although the Torghut Department has also suffered tremendous pressure from the Russian side in recent years, its life is still passable, and the population is quite large. As for running away like a bereaved dog? ?

The only thing that can be used to persuade them is that the Russian Empire is powerful, and the Torghuts are surrounded by Russian territory. The surrounding Bashkirs and Tatars are also useless, and they will be cleaned up one by one by the Tsar sooner or later. In the end, the Turhu Special Forces were unable to support themselves, and they had no choice but to surrender or flee.This reason sounds a little reasonable, but no one dares to guarantee whether people will approve it or not, so we can only try it out.

However, Gao Wengang still hopes that this matter will be successful.The establishment of a yellow Buddhist country influenced by them in the Don River and the North Caucasus region will undoubtedly play a vital role in the influence of the East Coast Republic of China in the Black Sea and Caucasus regions.The Turhu Special Department has more than 7 households and a population of 40 to [-], which is barely enough. As long as the people on the east bank are willing to spend money to help them, there is still hope for a firm foothold. Now it depends on how the situation develops.

On September 1687, 9, shortly after the second batch of 16 soldiers boarded and left, several ships that had been requisitioned by Mr. Mao returned to Haji Port, and they also brought Gao Wengang the latest front line In summary, there are three points: 15. The Russian army suffered a disastrous defeat at the city of Azov, and [-] troops collapsed. The commander-in-chief of the army, Golitsyn, fled to Eastern Ukraine with some of the defeated soldiers, trying to stay behind with the help of the Russian army and the Cossacks. Stabilize their position; [-]. The Crimean Tatars divided into two groups, all the way along the Don River to pursue the Russian army that fled in this direction, and the main force all the way marched northward, intending to enter Eastern Ukraine and deal with the Russian army that fled there. Litzen launched a new round of offensive; [-]. Lieutenant Colonel Mao Jun has led the first batch of more than [-] elite cavalry to go far along the Don River. They let go of the defeated Russian soldiers who were almost frightened, and concentrated on searching for Tur Hute tribe herdsmen, but so far there is no result, they do not intend to give up easily, and will continue to search deeply.

In addition, Lieutenant Colonel Mao Jun also pointed out that the ruling foundation of the Russian Empire in the lower reaches of the Don River is very weak, there are hardly many towns, and there are not many people.Wherever their cavalry went, there were very few settled farmers, but piles of nomadic tribesmen, which was very common. It can be seen that after annexing this place for a century, the Russians did not develop enough here. Cen's army is unwilling to advance along the Don River, but it can be seen from the relatively densely populated Ukraine, which is really a remote place in the Russian Empire.

Seeing this, Gao Wengang finally calmed down a little.It seems that there is no decent Russian army in the Don River Basin. During the Racine Uprising, those grass-headed armed forces were able to sweep away, which made the Tsar want to recruit peace for a while. In the end, he dispatched troops from other provinces to suppress it. It can be seen that the Russian army here Weakness of strength.Then Mao Jun led these thousands of people there, well equipped and advanced weapons, they should not be so easy to fail, right?

Ah, by the way, the remaining 500 people must be transferred as soon as possible.A few ships came back this time, just right, all of them were requisitioned!It should not be a problem to add [-] people and a large amount of supplies to the Don River area, so the front line will be more stable!

(End of this chapter)