A month has passed in a flash.

The newly arrived Armenians are building the new city of Kayasura under the command of the Truchen people. At the same time, they are carrying out drainage and canal construction work around the city, preparing to plant food before the end of spring.

All craftsmen, including Armenian and Georgian ones, were assigned to the city of Magar. The name of this city comes from the former Golden Horde, and of course Kitard continued to use it.

As of now, he has nearly 3,000 households of various craftsmen, half of whom were given to him by Lash Khan, and the other half are naturally newly acquired.

Of course, with Chitard's current strength, he cannot support three thousand simple craftsmen's households, who are also farmers and herdsmen.

Depending on the communication conditions at this time and the reaction speed of all parties, the short-lived war between the Ottomans, Russians, and Chechens in the North Caucasus had minimal impact.

Generally speaking, Russians have gained a lot.

Although they lost a future outstanding general, they took over the Taman Peninsula with a "little bird behind" attitude. From then on, when they deal with the Crimea Peninsula again, they don't have to worry about coming from a strait (Kerch)

Reinforcements came from across the way.

Due to his position, the deceased Rumyantsev did not have a dazzling record at this time. It will take a few more years for him to become famous.

As for the Ottomans, they violated the agreement in the first place and wanted to find fault with the Russians for the fall of Aziz and his legions. Their state of mind and ability made them unwilling to do so.
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According to their tradition, Deputy Aziz, who was born in the old West Paxi aristocracy, will definitely take over the position of West Georgia Pasha. For them, the last new Yenicheri nobleman who can threaten the interests of the traditional West Paxi nobles

Death is even a good thing.

Of course, both sides will definitely sternly rebuke each other in official letters exchanged, and the ambassadors of both sides will frequently come forward to launch their "indignation" protests and threats.

For the army at this time to really implement it, such as a major war, it will take at least half a year to prepare.

As for the investigation of the sudden appearance of Truchin, I believe that both sides are conducting it secretly. The Ottomans can say it is okay, after all, they are separated by a towering Caucasus Mountain, but the Russian investigation will definitely be fatal.

Based on the capabilities of the Cossack scouts and the Tsarist Russian secret police force at this time, it is not too difficult to find out the matter. It is impossible for all 50,000 Turgut households to listen to Lash, and even those within Truchin apparently

It is not monolithic.

Under peaceful conditions, they would naturally listen to Kitard, but once Tsarist Russia unleashes its "wrath of thunder," I believe many people will take the initiative to provide them with information.

For Kitard, he can no longer care about these things. He needs to further consolidate his strength before the Russians react.

Strength, only strength is the only choice to avoid disaster.

After passing through the Battle of Alan City, Kitard accelerated the ignition of steam engines, such as miniguns, and became more and more urgent. At this time, steam engines had begun to be put into use in the UK. It was only more than 20 years before Watt created the epoch-making steam engine. , he must seize time.

However, with so many big things happening, he had to sneak back to Vitryanka and explain to Lash the whole story.

Before leaving, he selected 2,000 young people over the age of 15 from the newly arrived Armenians, and asked Chuhur to guard Truqin, and taught and trained them in Magar City.

Let Shen Muhua lead a thousand people to station in Kayasura to guide and monitor the Armenians in building city walls and opening up fields.

He took Techina and ten other soldiers with him, put on Mongolian clothes, quietly crossed the Manech lowlands, and then meandered towards Vitlyanka on the Volga River.

Spring in the North Caucasus is short. Although it is only May, the weather is already a bit hot, and the days in the Kalmyk Steppe (the Russian name for the desert steppe between the Manech Lowlands and the Volga River) are even more scorching. Unbearable.

On this grassland that resembles the Mongolian Plateau, the former Golden Horde had a number of trading strongholds. Kayasura and Magar were one of them, but now they have become large and small platforms for the Turgut people. The location of Ji.

Without these strongholds, it would not be easy to successfully cross the thousands of miles to reach Vitlyangka. Kitard and others were wearing the costumes of the Guards "Qixue Army" used by the Great Khan Lash to patrol various pastures. Such people can be seen everywhere in the prairie at any time.

Therefore, they will not attract too much attention.

However, from the moment he set foot on the Kalmyk steppe, Kitard always felt a little uneasy.

In the vast Kalmyk steppe, it is impossible to meet herdsmen all the time, but the residences of Big and Little Taiji, which are the strongholds left over from the Golden Horde, still have a small population. The most eye-catching ones are the lamasery temples. , as soon as I saw the colorful prayer flags floating on the Lama Temple, I knew my next destination had arrived.

In order not to let others recognize him (even though he went to Astrakhan as a hostage when he was ten years old), Kitard also deliberately kept the beard that had just grown on his upper lip.

In this environment, he still felt uneasy. With his primitive vigilance as a herdsman at this time and his sensitivity as a soldier and policeman later in life, he finally understood after arriving at the third lamasery since leaving the Manech lowlands. Where does the uneasiness come from?

A stronghold centered on the Lama Temple!

The so-called strongholds are actually tents or wooden houses built by Taiji himself, plus the adjacent lamasery and small market. The surroundings are the ruins left by the former Golden Horde.

Starting from the ancestors of the Turhut people and Orlek, they lacked the ambition of Batu. Of course, this was also because there were powerful neighbors nearby that did not exist in Batu's time. They had neither strength nor motivation.

Go and repair those strongholds.

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Even so, there are usually some people in the stronghold, sometimes hundreds, sometimes dozens, which is quite a lot in the vast prairie.

Naturally, these strongholds also became supply depots for the Rashidan soldiers, which was one of his few benefits as the Great Khan.

After arriving at this stronghold, Kitard finally understood.

My uneasiness comes from the tracking and gaze of strangers. They follow my group far behind, hiding in mountain cols or canyons along the way. Since I have to go to the next stronghold, this gives them something to follow for surveillance.

Traces.

Once they enter the stronghold, they can hide in markets and Lama temples and peek secretly.

He seemed to feel a pair of eyes that were both good and evil.

This feeling is very strange, because the eyes he feels are gentle, kind, and doubtful, but also hateful, vigilant, and always ready to do harm.

He immediately realized that since the war in Alan City, Truqin's image was no longer the former one that was full of imagination and fear, but a normal force.

Therefore, attention from all forces is definitely inevitable.

"It seems that I have been targeted since I left Truqin"

Among the Turguts, there are many who have been bribed by the Cossacks. It would be understandable if one of the looks came from them, but what about the former?

After arriving at this stronghold, Kitard suddenly had an idea.

He stayed at the stronghold for a short time, unlike the previous two strongholds where he stayed for more than an hour each time. He hurriedly fed the war horses water and then left.

After leaving, they ran wildly and hid on a nearby barren mountain when they were still more than twenty miles away from the tenth stronghold.

If the peepers they felt really existed, they would not pursue them as closely as they did, but would keep a distance beyond their sight, because they knew that since Kitard and his party were not at the third stronghold

If you stay too long, you will inevitably end up staying in the fourth stronghold for a long time.

People can stay on horses for a long time, even for a whole day, but horses obviously cannot. When they reach the fourth stronghold, they must get a long rest!

As a result, they will walk at a normal horse speed behind them.

After waiting for about half an hour, Kitard finally waited for a group of people. No, no, no, it should be said that it was two groups of people.

They all look like Mongolians, divided into two teams, one in front and one behind. Each team has only two people, one old and one young. This situation is what it is like to be a spy on the grassland.

If there are too many people, it will inevitably arouse the attention of the herdsmen, and if there are too few people and they are alone, it will also arouse their suspicion.

There are two people, one old and the other young. The herdsman would think: "It's probably the father and son who went to the stronghold to buy things."

On this grassland, there are only two kinds of people who can cross the border with swagger no matter how many people there are.

One is naturally a patrolman from Lash, and the other is a Cossack. Although the Russians have established a secret police force, they still have to rely on the Cossacks to conduct investigations on the prairie.

All the people are wearing felt hats, and even with binoculars in hand, it is difficult to see their specific faces, but judging from their clothing, these people are not ordinary herders, and at least two of them are Taiji!

Of course, Taijis are also divided into big and small. It has been more than a hundred years since the Oirat people led by Orlek arrived here in the 1930s. The children of the nobles have reproduced for countless generations. There are so many different kinds of Taijis that only direct descendants can do it.

With a large territory, there are usually more than a hundred herders, or even more than ten herders.

These people never thought that Kitard and the others would hide halfway and continue to move forward.

Kitard and others continued to stay here. There was a creek nearby, so there was no fear of lack of water and grass.

In the afternoon, as dusk approached, Kitard was wondering if he was too preoccupied when two more people came from the direction of the fourth stronghold. If he guessed correctly, these two people must be the two people who passed by in the morning.

One of the groups.

"The fourth stronghold is only more than twenty miles away from here. According to the speed of the horses, they can arrive in half an hour. The delay in returning now means that they quickly arrived at the fifth stronghold before, and then turned back after finding nothing.

Maybe we also conducted a search near the fourth stronghold”
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