Chapter 5 Nogay Storm (2) Kherson
When Wobasi was fully armed and riding on the war horse, the mark of the former Truqin army finally appeared on him again.
Among the two brigades he controlled, except for one hundred officers from the Truqin Turkic company commander and above each with the latest weapons, the newly trained Nogai cavalry was also equipped with flintlock spear, flintlock short gun and sabre.
The configuration is actually more advanced than the surrounding Russians, Crimeans and Ottomans.
In order not to make the Nogay people too dissatisfied, there is also a platoon leader of the One Hundred Truchen with the same equipment.
Of course, in daily training, officers above the company commander also use old weapons and new weapons, which are used to save their lives.
Wobasi led a platoon of personal guards toward Kherson.
Because there is only where you can cross the Dnieper River, Truchen occupied Khlson and built a formal bridge there.
After the Truchens occupied the Port of Khlsong, they immediately built castles on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and opened a field outside the city to attract Nogai people from both sides to come and trade.
The Truchens traded with the Nogay people at almost a cost, which naturally changed the situation where the trade rights were in the hands of Master Baiyi, and poor herders could only obtain defective products at high prices.
Let a large number of Nogay herdsmen spontaneously move to the city of Helsong for grazing.
However, it is not easy to build a bridge near Kherson. Although the soil silt caused by long-term erosion of rivers on both sides of the river is not as high as in later generations, a long road is still formed on the other side of Kherson.
A swamp area about twenty miles wide.
In the end, Truchen began to build the bridge in the later Qiulupingsk area. After two years of excavation, pile driving, and pouring concrete, the bridge was finally completed in three years.
Since the Dnieper River is located in a downstream close to the estuary, it allows them to complete the construction by blocking a river so that the river can flow from other tributaries. Otherwise, with their current technology, it will not be wide or deep
The bridge was built in the lower reaches of the Dnieper River.
It is their special and superb bridge construction technology that amazed the nearby Nogai people, Cossacks and Poles, and also made the newly appointed Peter III temporarily give up the idea of dealing with them wholeheartedly and prepare for the future.
In addition to the latter's amazing record, Peter III worshipped Frederick the Great, and a series of policies and measures implemented in the Kingdom of Prussia, which made the Kingdom almost catch up with the performance of Western European countries.
Although Peter III was a German, his longing for Western Europe was no less than that of Peter the Great. After seeing the amazing bridge building technology of the Truchens, he knew that it would not be a one-day achievement to defeat such a country.
For Qitad, since he occupied Khlsun and spent a lot of effort to block the river and build bridges, it would definitely not be used specifically to facilitate the exchanges between people and carriages. The bridge was designed with two floors, and now only one floor is above.
Used, and the lower floor is empty, obviously preparing for the train.
Of course, it’s not just Truchen nowadays, but there is no concept of trains throughout Europe.
The Nogae people did not have an exact concept of area, so after the Truchen people occupied this place, they surrounded all the radius of hundreds of miles on both sides of the shore.
The castle adopts the European circular building method, but it is not made of stones, but made of gravel mixed concrete. The castle on the south bank is smaller, only three miles in radius, and the north is larger, almost eight miles in size.
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Obviously, Qitad did not build it as his own enclave port city in a deep foreign land, but was of great use.
The city wall is five meters thick and six meters high. The outside is also made of a bastion, which has a strong military purpose.
Deng Ce, the eldest son of the uncle of the brothers of Gitad and the uncle of the Wobasi, is now the manager of the two port cities of Khlsson and Sevastopol. He also serves as the Foreign Affairs, Commerce and Intelligence Bureau.
Qitad still admires him very much.
When Deng Ce learned that Wobaxi was coming, he personally went to the small fort in the south bank to greet him.
Learning that he was going to Olbia (Yujine), the thirty-year-old Deng Ce quickly said, "Jenmanbetbay is not there now"
"Oh? Then where is he?"
Deng Ce smiled and said, "You are his son-in-law, and you don't even know where he is now?"
Wobasi smiled and said, "Orbia is hundreds of miles away from Melitopol. How can I know all his actions?"
Deng Ce said seriously: "At present, Jiangmanbet is accompanying all the Nogay people's great mullah Afanti in Bunare in Moldova, preparing to celebrate Eid with the Bujaks"
(Bunare, Tatar Bunare in Moldova in later generations)
"Oh? Why is this?"
"Haha, Huntaiji, one of your father-in-law's wife gave birth to a daughter for him, and she did not die when she was one year old. This made him ecstatic. You know, in the Nogai tribe, as long as it is not the same tribe.
The noble son-in-law, but the foreign ones, are treated as sons."
"With you, he thinks he can control Yedikule's tribe. Now he has another daughter. If he recruits a son-in-law in the future, he can control the entire Yedishan tribe."
"The four major divisions of Nogae are in the Crimean Peninsula, except for the Jaboyruk tribe in the Crimean Peninsula, the remaining three are on the mainland, and the westernmost Bujak tribe is located in Moldova, Romania controlled by the Ottomans."
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"In addition to these two places, there is also a part of Bulgaria they control. The Bujak tribe is the Noga tribe that is most loyal to the Ottomans, and it is also the main source of cavalry that they went out to fight against the Russians several times"
"In order to win over them, the Ottomans conferred the great chief of the Bujak tribe as Bujak Khan, enjoyed the same treatment as the Crimean Khan, and allowed the Sultan royal family to marry him. Speaking of which, the ministry and the Ottoman were like Hui
The T-People are the main sources of their Qiexue Army for the other Weila tribes”
"But they are Nogae people after all, and they still recognize the great Maulla Afanti from Yedishan tribe, which is something that the Ottomans cannot control. This time, Afanti put the Eid Festival celebration of all Nogae people.
In Bunare, it is probably the instigation of your father-in-law”
"What's the use of his instigation?"
Wobasi couldn't help but sneer.
"The Great Maulla Afanti also has a son, and he is twenty years old this year. With his prestige, just like the former Chechen Maulla Mansour, it was him, not my father-in-law, who could unify the Nogai grasslands,
Because like the Chechens, they always wanted to establish a country that integrates politics and religion”
"But the Ottoman Sultan's fear of the tribe chief is far less than that of the big mullah, which made Afanti never succeed. In name, it was instigated by my father-in-law, but Afanti himself also wanted to do this? Although the two were cousins,
It's just a stinking smell"
Deng Ce said intimately: "It seems that Wobaxi is not interested in his father-in-law"
"Then are you still going to Bunare?"
"Why not go?"
Deng Ce thought about it and said, "Huntaiji, can I ask why?"
Regarding Deng Ce, Wobaxi naturally has no reason to hide it.
"You must also know that the Crimean Khan Karim has been targeted by the Ottoman Sultan. According to convention, once he arrives in Istanbul, he will definitely be gone forever, and there will be another person to replace him. Recently,
This is how all Ottoman Sultans did for thirty years”
"But Karim believes that with the support of our country and Russia, he can stop going. Sudan will definitely send people to question it. So with the support of our country and Russia, he is very likely to reach a treaty with Sudan to maintain a neutral status.
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"But even if Sudan is under pressure from two powerful enemies, he will not easily release jurisdiction over Crimea, so Karim Khan can only cede land. Nowadays, both Bujak and Yedishan are nominally both.
It's from the Crimean Khanate"
"Bujak had been swept by the Ottomans long ago. If Karim could ced all the land on the west bank of the Dnieper River to the Ottomans, I believe Mustafa III would agree"
Deng Ce seemed to understand, "Khan, no, no, His Majesty the King meant to let Yedishan tribe move to the east bank of the Dnieper River before this?"
Wobaxi smiled and said, "Cousin, you are indeed a clan child whom you value. You are very smart and can be seen at a glance. Why do you have any opinions?"
Deng Ce thought for a while and said, "Although the four tribes of Nogae are numerous, they are not like the Mongolians like us, they are all large tribes. Taiji was also divided from the nobles in the big tribe, but at the beginning, the Nogae people
It's just a small tribe, with only one big chief on them, and there is no rank of ten thousand men and ten thousand men like ours in the past."
"Some are only obtained by those who came from the imam family and use their religious status"
"What's more, there are already 70,000 to 80,000 Nogai herdsmen on the east coast, and can they still carry Yedishan tribe? You should know that Yedishan tribe also has 70,000 to 80,000 households"
"Then what you mean..."
"Huntaiji, I have a good idea"
"Speak quickly"
"Yedishan tribe is also composed of small tribes. They only recognize your father-in-law and Afanti. If these two people jointly persuade them, they will naturally be willing to migrate, but it will take a long time."
"In addition, once Mustafa III learns that Karim Khan has not come, he will make a decision to agree to negotiate with Russia, our country, and Crimea at least one month. If you include the negotiations, the autumn will also be in the future.
It's done"
"But if 80,000 Yedishan tribes want to move to the east bank of the Dnieper River within three months, there may be no such thing as the area. They are widely distributed between the Dniest and the Dnieper River, with a span of about five hundred miles east-west.
, there are one or two hundred miles north and south. According to their mobilization ability, if you want to migrate as soon as possible, you can only hold a conference”
"Otherwise, rely on tribes to persuade you, I don't know if it will be the year of the monkey and horse month"
"At present, most of these tribal chiefs are celebrating Eid al-Fitr with Avanti, which is an opportunity, but unlike our country, the herdsmen live in tents and live with water plants, which are extremely abundant.
One acre of land can feed a sheep, and the herdsmen all settled in it”
"Some have become half-herderly and half-farmers, with a big family and a big business, so how can it be so easy to relocate?"
"But..."
"I don't think so. At present, the western Ukraine controlled by the Poles is vast and sparsely populated. There is also a buffer zone with the Ottomans in the middle. Huntaiji knows Tvorokov, the leader of the Cossack area, and it is better to let Yedishan tribe migrate if you know the Cossack leader Tvorokov in the buffer zone.
Part of it, by the way, is the herdsmen near the buffer zone”
"Let them move to the vast area between the Poles-controlled Uman area and the Ottoman-controlled places, where there is not much population living due to long-term frontlines"
(He refers to the Kafbath region in later generations)
"Oh?"
Chapter completed!