Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 402 Annihilation of Cossack Cavalry and Handling of Prisoners of War
Oknido chose to retreat in the end, no gold, no food, and all other supplies were discarded.

Oknido took the remnants of his surviving Cossack cavalry and ran northward without stopping.

But what Oknido didn't expect was that the remnants of his Cossack cavalry had been completely drilled into a pocket at this time. Just after escaping from the chariot battalion and the pursuit of the third army infantry, they encountered a certain soldier of the Janissary again. The frontal blocking of the brigade infantry.

The Cossack cavalry, who had already become frightened, dared not despise the group of yellow dwarfs in front of them anymore!

As soon as they saw the Imperial Guard infantry appearing on the snowfield with guns, they no longer rushed forward with their knives, but immediately turned their horses and retreated in another direction.

But after running from the other direction for a long time, or just passing a valley pass, they were hit by fierce fire again, and the beaten Cossack cavalry had to run around like headless chickens.

The commander-in-chief of Orkneydo can't pay attention now. According to his previous combat experience, in this case, the losing side will surrender, and then become a prisoner of war and be killed by the winning side.

Obviously, Oknido does not want to admit that he has lost the war, nor is he willing to surrender. He just wants to run out as much as possible, even if he is the only one left, he will flee back to West Siberia.

Oknido had to order the various departments to disperse and break through to divert firepower.

But in fact, for the Cossack cavalry who only have steel knives and firearms in their hands, the effect of this is the same.

In the outer northeast region of Nuoda, from forests to rivers, and then from tundra to valleys, gunfire and the roar of war horses resounded everywhere.

Countless Cossack cavalry were shot to the ground by the sudden arrival of Janissary infantry, and even one Janissary infantry dared to directly shoot at more than a dozen Cossack cavalry, prompting them to change the direction of the breakout.

However, the vital force of the Imperial Guard's own Third Cavalry Army has just been dispatched.

Obai knew this world-famous Cossack cavalry from the military theory class of the Royal Military Academy, and he also wanted to try to fight against such a world-class cavalry.

But now it makes him very depressed and disappointed. I don't know when the cavalry can only be used for finishing work.

Those who were responsible for the main damage were actually those artillery pieces and chariots, and even poisonous gas that people couldn't touch or see.

Obai realized that the way of war was changing, but he was unwilling to admit this fact. He tried his best to prove that cavalry is still the most important military force in the world, so he insisted on the high standards for his cavalry unit of the third army as always. Require.

Even for this kind of mopping-up work, he still needs to request that not a single Cossack cavalry escape. At this time, the entire Third Army is walking around the periphery of the Guards like a pack of keen wolves, and they are scattered in teams. The Cossack cavalry broke out, and if the number was small, they would be wiped out directly. If the number was large, they would drive directly into the encirclement and let the infantry destroy them.

Since then, none of the Cossack cavalry escaped from the encirclement of the Praetorian Guards, and almost all the Cossack cavalry died here, except for some who had to surrender their dignity to the big bright yellow dwarf they looked down upon because they were afraid of death.

In the early morning of the next day, the body of Oknido, the commander of the Cossack cavalry, was also found somewhere in the dense forest within the encirclement, and it was only an ordinary Janissary soldier who was killed. The sniper shot, but he didn't want Oknido to bump into him by coincidence.

Oknido was shot in the head and died, but from the countless thorn bushes that fell and the traces of sliding, it can be seen that Oknido was shot in the head while riding a horse fast.

This is the individual quality of the infantry of the Praetorian Guards!
Although the physique may be worse than these tall Cossack cavalry, but under the rich nutrition supply, even an ordinary soldier can shoot a fast-moving cavalry and hit the head with the reflection of the snow, Rather than allowing Orknido to escape due to night blindness and negligence in gun shooting ability.

Of course, the successful sniping of Orkney at night by coincidence cannot rule out accidental factors.

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It took only two days from the start of the whole battle to the end, and the tens of thousands of Cossack cavalry who marched into East Siberia were all annihilated in the outer northeast region by the [-] Imperial Guards.

This was beyond the Cossack cavalry's own imagination.

This cavalry that traversed the entire Eurasian continent will have to face the crushing brought about by the gap between the times, and will become the first European army conquered by Ming Dynasty.

As a result, the situation in the outer northeast was resolved. Superintendent Lu Xiangsheng also arrived at Temple Street City this afternoon. After meeting with Mao Wenlong and Zhu Guozheng, he began to dispatch the Imperial Guards to take the opportunity to recover other lost areas and occupy parts of Eastern Siberia. .

At this time, the East Siberia region was regarded as the only remaining intermediate zone between the Raksha Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty.

The Raksha Kingdom marched eastward with the Cossack cavalry as the vanguard, first occupied by force, and then established administrative order.

Now East Siberia has just been occupied by the Cossack cavalry, so it has not had time to be fully Europeanized by the Raksha Kingdom.

Therefore, Lu Xiangsheng took advantage of this and immediately sent the Third Army of the Imperial Guard Cavalry to occupy this part of the area first, and selected important places to build castles to prepare for future immigration.

The income of the shares of the officers and soldiers of the Imperial Guards is basically in Huangzhuang, and Huangzhuang is now the largest agricultural reclamation group in Daming. The amount of land it owns will determine the harvest of Huangzhuang, and also determine the income of these Royal Guards .

Therefore, Lu Xiangsheng and other officials of the Imperial Guard system supported Zhu Youxiao's foreign expansion policy.

What's more, everyone knows that once the war is over, it is the members of the army who suffer the most.

However, Zhu Youxiao does not want to start the road of external expansion.

The main reason is that this south-north battle has just ended, and the troops urgently need to rest.

In addition, there is still a Western Expedition going on now, and the tax revenue from sea trade is still being deported to Beijing, so the gap between Ming's treasury expenditure and income has begun to widen.

Coupled with continuous fighting, both the army and the people were exhausted, so Zhu Youxiao had to suspend further expansion.

What's more, there are still two forces in the north that need to be resolved urgently, one is Jiannu, and the other is the Lindan Khan tribe of Mongolia.

Zhu Youxiao has never let down his vigilance against Jiannu, and the frequency of Jin Yiwei's activities in Jiannu has never decreased.

Being reformed in Monan and many traitors being executed, coupled with the increasingly powerful imperial guards in Ming Dynasty, the current Jiannu seems to have no vitality in the past.

At this time, the Jiannu country can be roughly divided into two forces. One is based on the Zhenghuang Banner and Zhengbai Banner, such as Huang Taiji and Dorgon. Manchu nobles are still stubbornly hoping to have a showdown with Daming in the future. .

One is that the Manchu Qing nobles, represented by Zhenglan Banner, etc., gradually lost their fighting spirit to plot the Central Plains, and began to enjoy themselves under the assimilation of the Han bureaucrats. It's better to live a good life in the battle between Ming Dynasty and Ming Dynasty.

In fact, in the original history, there have been disagreements among the Manchu nobles on whether to enter the customs and occupy the Central Plains. Not all Manchu nobles have ambitions.

What's more, even the Manchu nobles at that time were not sure that they could become the masters of the world. If Li Zicheng's Dashun regime was not too far away from the landlord and gentry group, which led to the collusion of the big landlords and bureaucrats of the Han nationality, I'm afraid The Manchus could not seize the country either.

But now, the Ming Dynasty has a sign of rejuvenation, the force is strong, and the Manchu nobles who established slaves know that they can't win the country of the Ming Dynasty. In addition, with the joining of a large number of Han people, these Han people who can even lose their national integrity It is also impossible to expect any good guiding effect, and it will naturally bring the extravagant style of scholar-bureaucrats in the late Ming Dynasty to Jiannu.

As a result, many Manchu nobles not only lost their arduous style of drinking blood, but also became arty, raising flowers and amusing birds.

Some Manchu nobles followed Nurhachi to occupy a lot of interests in Liaodong before the Ming Dynasty, and now they are exploiting millions of serfs in Liaobei. Naturally, they also enjoy life like the rich and powerful in the pass because of their capital, so they began to degenerate rapidly. Corrupted.

Coupled with the fact that some ambitious and unscrupulous traitors who tried their best to advocate the Manchu nobles plotting the Central Plains with the intention of relying on the Manchu Dynasty to shine in the annals of history were successively eliminated by the Jinyiwei, so most of the Han bureaucrats who can stay now are sycophants. generation.

When a regime loses its aggressiveness, it begins to fall into divisions and internal struggles, as is the case with Jianshou now.

Huang Taiji was still not reconciled to being a mediocre emperor, and could only be a poor king in a bitter cold place.

Therefore, Huang Taiji still wants to prepare his troops, accumulate strength, and prepare to continue to plunder the pass in the future.

Dorgon, who maintains the same attitude as Tong, is still trying his best to plan how to strengthen his own power to build slaves. However, in Dorgon's view, it is not a question of whether his own Qing Dynasty can destroy Daming, but that Daming will It doesn't kill your own problems.

Daming now controls Monan, Outer Northeast, and Liaodong’s seaports. No matter how busy Jiannu is at this time, no matter how busy he is with internal conflict integration and self-development, no one realizes that his Qing Dynasty has fallen into the trap of being surrounded by the Ming Dynasty. Surrounded situation.

And Dorgon is naturally a sensible person here, so even though he and Huang Taiji also had a rift, in order to keep his foundation in the Qing Dynasty, he did his best to support Huang Taiji's continued development and was ready to fight against Ming Dynasty at any time .

Although many Qing aristocrats who were content with the status quo did not want to go to the painstaking training of horseback riding and archery and even training firearms and artillery drills, the Great Qing Ordnance Institute, which built slaves, still manufactured many flintlock guns, and even equipped them with A flintlock unit with a scale of [-] people, and even a lot of artillery.

In addition, Huang Taiji and others also mobilized serfs to strengthen the city walls on the basis of the original city of Daming, and continued to strengthen the training of elite soldiers because of their small population.

That is to say, the current Jiannu has not completely degenerated because of the strong support of some aggressive Manchu nobles, and its Eight Banners army is still capable of fighting, and even organized firearms and artillery unit.

In addition, Huang Taiji's series of reform measures to rest with the people also enabled it to achieve basic self-sufficiency and reserve certain strategic materials.

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As for Lin Dan Khan of Mongolia, he was also an ambitious man. Taking advantage of the opportunity of Ming Dynasty to destroy the Zheng Zhilong Pirate Group and the Outer Northeast, Lin Dan Khan also accelerated the pace of unifying other Mongolian ministries.

Even taking advantage of this time when Ming Dynasty was conquering Hamiwei in the west, a large number of Mongolian tribes in the Hetao area were drawn into an alliance, and there was a great intention to start a war with Ming Dynasty on the grounds that Ming Dynasty was now provoking the Northwest War.

But whether it's Jiannu or the Mongolian Lindan Khan, Zhu Youxiao doesn't have time to deal with these two elbow and armpits at this time.

Now that Ming himself has begun to show his prominence in the international arena, he has also offended many so-called big powers at this time. For example, Baron Turia, who was forced to withdraw the right of residence in Macau and beheaded Francois on the grounds of extraterritoriality, will inevitably cause Francois Ji's fury, no one is sure whether Folang Ji will take revenge on Daming and provoke a war with Daming because of this.

In addition, now that the Cossack cavalry has been completely wiped out and East Siberia has been occupied, it means that the conflict between Daming and the Raksha State, a western power, has officially escalated. With the arrogance and domineering of the Raksha State, Zhu Youxiao cannot guarantee The Rakshasa Congress was therefore suspended.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao feels that some things must be done, otherwise Zhu Youxiao is not sure that he will not be provoked by other external forces when he cleans up the two powerful enemies in front of the house.

In consideration of the upcoming Longevity Day and the fact that envoys from various countries would come to pay tribute, Zhu Youxiao did not let Lu Xiangsheng directly execute these captured Cossack cavalry in the outer northeast.

Instead, these Cossack prisoners of war were escorted to Beijing.

Zhu Youxiao wants to use the heads of these Cossack prisoners of war to make a show, so as to show the national prestige of the Ming Dynasty to those who visit or stay in Ming Dynasty.

Galileo, who had been in Daming for two months, was specially invited outside the Meridian Gate as a foreign member of the Royal Academy of Sciences.

It's not just Galileo, but also other foreigners, such as the foreign students of the Imperial University, businessmen and envoys from various countries who stayed in the capital, and many missionaries.

In short, almost all kinds of foreigners in the capital were invited outside the Meridian Gate.

And Zhu Youxiao let them come outside the Meridian Gate with only one purpose, which is to execute these captured Cossack cavalry in front of these foreigners.

The Cossack cavalry is a powerful army that has attracted worldwide attention, especially for Western fans, they are like demons.

At this moment, Zhu Youxiao was going to tell these foreigners the news that the Imperial Guards of the Ming Dynasty had defeated the Cossack cavalry and captured more than 100 Cossack cavalry, so that they could bring the news back to their own country to understand the true strength of the Ming Empire.

"This is the Cossack cavalry of the Raksha Kingdom, why is it tied to the column like a prisoner of war at this moment."

Galileo was not a nerd. Although he lived in Florence all year round, he had visited other countries in Europe in his early years. He knew the bravery of the Cossack cavalry. Looking up, these prisoners of war were recognized as Cossacks.

But Galileo did not expect that these Cossacks would become captives of the empire at this time, and seemed to be waiting to be judged for their crimes.

(End of this chapter)