The Great Bandit in Kangxi Year

Chapter 250 The New Crisis
At the same time, Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty had gathered more than [-] cavalry to invade the West Siberia Plain and drink horses by the Yenisei River.

Kangxi has led his army into this place for several months.

At this time, Russia was still a serfdom country, which could be described as internal and external difficulties. In addition, Russia had a small population and a large land area. Most of the population gathered around Moscow, and Siberia was sparsely populated and multi-ethnic. All these gave Kangxi an opportunity.

The ups and downs of Kangxi's experience not only did not break him down, but made him more tenacious and more mature in his actions. Wherever the Qing cavalry passed, there was only death besides surrender.

Based on the experience of the rise of the Black Tiger Army, he abolished the serfdom in Russia in time and suppressed the slave owners forcefully. All serfs were incorporated into the Raksha Eight Banners, and Manchus or Mongols served as the capitals.

This time the serfs extinguished their resistance and were willing to sacrifice their lives for the Qing emperor.

Since the Mongolian army occupied Russia in 1237 and established the Kipchak Khanate, the Mongols ruled Russia for more than 300 years. Until 1547, Ivan IV, the Grand Duke of Moscow, was crowned as the Tsar and built the Kremlin. The Grand Duchy of Moscow gradually developed into the politics of Northeast Russia. , economic, cultural and religious center, led other principalities to get rid of the rule of Mongol-Tatars, and made Russia an independent country.

However, the power of the Mongols is still not small. The Eight Banners of Manchuria and Kangxi came.

Moreover, Kangxi paid attention to the construction of industry. When he migrated at this time, he brought a large number of craftsmen and technicians of the Han nationality, and successively rebuilt the Bingzhang Division and the iron factory.

All of the above caused the strength of the Qing Dynasty to gradually recover. Under the perfect Eight Banners system, no one dared to resist, but Kangxi was dissatisfied. He had seen the might of the Great Hua Empire and knew that he was not yet an opponent.

Besides, during this migration, the Qing Dynasty discarded a large number of artillery pieces. At this time, the Qing Dynasty only had more than 500 artillery pieces, with a population of less than [-] million, let alone the opponent of Dahua, so there was only westward expansion.

However, the Russian Tsar Alexei was devastated. Seeing that the Ottoman Empire was once again strengthening its military power in Europe, he mobilized 60 troops to fight the Manchus to the death.

However, the Manchu Qing only used [-] Shenji Battalion and more than [-] infantry cavalry to draw a tie with the Russian army and horses, and became a stalemate. Thanks to the use of trenches and barbed wire, these made the Cossack cavalry hit their heads and break their blood flow.

But at this time, Emperor Kangxi commanded 20 Manchurian Eight Banners to harass the Russian army's grain roads and rear areas.

These Manchu and Mongolian cavalry have three horses and one man. They are extremely mobile. They do not capture cities, but only harass villages and roads. As a result, no one dares to deliver food and grass to the Russian army. More than [-] Cossack cavalry were ordered to deal with the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia.

But Kangxi is not easy to provoke, he ordered some Manchurian Eight Banners to take the Cossack cavalry around.

The Russian tsar couldn't even run this time. He was surrounded in the middle, and after a stalemate for more than a month, he finally ran out of ammunition and food, and was finally annihilated by the entire army attacked by Kangxi again.

The Russian Tsar Alexei died in battle, and Kangxi gradually encroached on the West Siberia Plain, using the Raksha Eight Banners and the Han Army Eight Banners as the main force to attack the cities. After capturing a city, the captives were the vanguard. The strength is increasing day by day.

However, there was chaos in Russia. Peter Alexeyevich Romanov, the son of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov, was elected as the fourth generation of Tsar of the Russian Romanov dynasty. It is the famous Peter the Great in history, but he is only seven years old at this time, and the authority in Russia is in the hands of the nobles.

In response to the invasion of the Manchus, the Russian nobles held a joint meeting and decided to unanimously go abroad.

But at this time, Russia was unable to raise a large army to fight against the Qing Dynasty, so it could only implement the scorched earth strategy, abandoning a large area of ​​land in the West Siberia Plain, and burning all the supplies that could not be taken away.

Unexpectedly, this hit the vital point of the Qing Dynasty. Kangxi attacked the West Siberian Plain to plunder the population and resources, and support the war with war. However, Russia's scorched-earth strategy made the Qing Dynasty get nothing. In view of food and materials, Kangxi Due to the pressure, the offensive had to be stopped, and the people began to mobilize farming and grazing to lay the foundation for the next offensive.

At this time, the land he controlled was already very large, but the population was very small. In fact, there were still places on such a large land that he did not control. The next task for the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia was to make them all submit to the rule of the Qing Empire.

In order to prevent the Great Hua Empire from being wiped out, Kangxi took the initiative to move most of the population to the West Siberia Plain, but he did not give up on the Central Siberia Plateau. After all, it can provide excellent war horses, cattle and sheep.

In this way, if the Dahua Empire wanted to conquer the Qing Empire, it would have to travel through thousands of miles of uninhabited places.

In fact, the Dahua Empire has no spare power to worry about the remnants of the Qing Dynasty. Although Dahua has now surrendered the various tribes of Mongolia, it has completely exhausted the wealth of the Dahua Empire. , I am afraid that the empire is simply unable to launch a major battle now.

It was already mid-August in the second year of Huaxing, and the imperial expeditionary force was divided into two groups to attack Sumatra Island. Although the island had tens of thousands of combined British and French armies, it was already dry, and it was only a matter of time.

The other way is to attack Batavia Fortress, mainly because half of the wealth of the Netherlands in Southeast Asia is concentrated here, but they don't want to suffer setbacks.

The empire concentrated 2000 artillery pieces and two sharpshooters to attack the city of Batavia. For more than ten days in a row, the city of Batavia was still in the hands of the Dutch, but more than [-] soldiers of the empire were killed or injured. The reason for wearing a combat vest.

This was something the Imperial Army had never encountered before, and the imperial generals discovered the stubbornness of the star-shaped fortress.

In the end, the imperial soldiers concluded two things: "First, the Dutch deployed hundreds of cannons on the fortress, and their firepower was not weaker than that of the empire. Second, the star-shaped fortress made the previous tactics of the imperial soldiers very weak, and the star-shaped fortress The fortress is extremely strong, and the walls of the fortress are difficult to destroy with live ammunition."

The Imperial Expeditionary Force stopped using brute force, leaving two sharpshooters to surround the fortress and bombard Batavia day and night.

The remaining sharpshooters and marines began to attack other cities in Java.

At this time, the military strength of the empire seemed a little lacking, and the expedition leader asked the empire to increase its troops, otherwise it would be difficult to pacify the whole of Indonesia within a year.

It’s not that the Indonesian army is powerful. In fact, the combat power of those indigenous troops is very low. The main reason is that Indonesia has a large territory, many islands, dense forests, and complex terrain.

Many tribes have moved into the mountains and forests.

At this time, the expeditionary force had five sharpshooters and four marine divisions, half of which had to guard important areas, and only 7 people were used for the battle.

It was already September when Jiang Tao received the request from the general of the expeditionary force, and he was immediately depressed. Indonesia and Burma must be pacified within a year.

Otherwise, when Britain, France, the Netherlands and other countries come to retaliate in the following year, the empire may not be able to stand up.

But the financial deficit of the empire is already very serious, and it can no longer withstand a major war. At this time, it is the limit of the empire's mobilization. The main reason is that the Burmese battlefield has dragged down the empire's military strength. Although the empire has already captured more than half of Burma, the resistance of the Great Zhou It was very tenacious, and the emperor of the Mughal Empire sent a warning letter: The Great Hua Empire must withdraw its troops from Burma within one month, because Burma has become a vassal state of the Moghul Empire, and if you dare to hesitate, you will be at your own risk.

Jiang Tao was amused and angry at the same time, and hurriedly summoned the cabinet ministers to discuss the matter.

With his character, he should immediately declare war on the Mughal Empire, but the current situation of the empire is already very difficult to fight against such a huge empire.

Being able to bend and stretch is a real man, Jiang Tao had no choice but to comfort himself.

(End of this chapter)