Chapter 893 Finale (3)

Author: Linglinghou

Chapter 893 Finale (3)

A few days later, the Telecommunications Office received a telegram from Fusi Jinyiwei of Beizhen through the Ningxi Governor's Mansion.

This cable not only explained in detail the current situation in Central Asia, but also explained the reasons why Tsarist Russia and the Safavids jointly invaded Ningxi.

Zhu Hechen looked at it and frowned.

'I didn't expect that it was the remnants of the Qing captives who were causing trouble!'

Central Asia was originally a place where central, central, south, and north meet. Many nomadic and semi-nomadic peoples gathered here, creating a complex situation.

As early as the beginning of Zhu Ya'ao's accession to the throne, there were three khanates between the Aral Sea and Congling and west of Lake Kashgar, namely the Khiva Khanate south of the Aral Sea and the Bukhara Khanate in the river area, as well as the The Kazakh Khanate in the Kazakh Steppe.

Later, the four major tribes of Oira, that is, three of the four major tribes of Oirat, all moved westward due to the strong rise of the Ming Empire, thus compressing the original living space of the area west of Kashgar Lake.

Originally, Wala had been fighting wars against the Kazakh Khanate, and was suppressing the Kazakh Khanate. Later, because the Ming Empire was forced to move westward, it purchased some matchlock guns from the Ming Dynasty, which put even greater pressure on the Kazakh Khanate. Already.

As a result, the Kazakh Khanate could not hold on and perished more than ten years ago.

However, due to the intervention of Tsarist Russia, the three major Oara tribes that moved westward were also severely weakened. They were almost wiped out by Tsarist Russia, the Khiva Khanate and other nomadic tribes. They eventually split into more small tribes, either heading east to submit to the Ming Dynasty, or Some of them went north to join Tsarist Russia, or integrated into the local nomadic tribes, and some occupied a place in the Kazakh grasslands.

Subsequently, these nomadic tribes continued to migrate westward and attacked Khiva and the Bukhara Khanate.

Coupled with Tsarist Russia's continuous southward invasion, the two Central Asian khanates that were originally expected to last until the 18th and 19th centuries in Bactria were successively destroyed by Tsarist Russia and the nomadic peoples who moved westward.

Of course, the two khanates actually persisted for more than ten years and were destroyed one after another seven or eight years ago.

During this process, the remaining Qing tribes who migrated here from the north also joined the melee among the various tribes in Central Asia.

According to the Jinyi Guards of Fusi in Beizhen, it is unknown what happened to the Qing captives who first moved here. There are only about 5,000 people left, of whom only about 3,000 are capable of fighting.

It took Dorgon's daughter Dongguo as its heroine, Ao Bai as its general, and Hong Chengchou as its military advisor, and called itself the Qing Jin Department.

The living space in Central Asia has been squeezed, and various tribes have been fighting for years. As soon as the Qingjin tribe came, they were hostile to the surrounding tribes. If it were not for the fact that they were equipped with a lot of muskets, the soldiers were mostly elite, and Obai was brave and good at fighting. , maybe they were destroyed by the surrounding tribes before they even got a foothold.

Later, the Qingjin tribe participated in the battle to destroy the Khiva Khanate, grew into a large tribe with tens of thousands of people, and gained a relatively stable territory south of the Aral Sea.

This time, the reason why Tsarist Russia and the Safavids were able to jointly attack the Ningxi Dudufu was that the Qingjin Ministry played a matchmaking role. In particular, the Safavid Kingdom sent 100,000 troops mainly because of the influence of the Qingjin Ministry. The envoy's seduction and heavy bribery.

After putting down the message, Zhu Hechen frowned, but shook his head.

'This information came too late.'

If the Fusi Jinyiwei in the North Town of Central Asia can detect these things in advance, they can definitely try to prevent them.

Because the activities of the envoys of the Qingjin Ministry in the Safavid Kingdom were really shoddy, that is to say, the rulers and ministers of the Safavid Kingdom were ignorant and corrupt, so they were easily deceived.

Fortunately, in the past ten years, due to the constant melee in Central Asia, some nomadic people want to develop eastward and continue to attack the areas under the jurisdiction of the Ningxi Dudu Prefecture.

Under such circumstances, the officers and soldiers of the Ningxi Governor's Mansion were very vigilant.

Therefore, although a large area of ​​land was quickly lost this time under the attack from the north and south by Tsarist Russia and the Safavids, the casualties among the officers and soldiers under the Governor's Mansion were not many.

In the past two days, after Li Laiheng reduced his troops, he relied on cities and fortresses in several dangerous places to block the offensive of the Russian and Safavid armies.

As long as we persist for a few more days, the reinforcements from Ningsui and Anxi provinces can arrive one after another.

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In the fourth year of the Qianyuan year of the Ming Dynasty (1671 AD), early June.

The Ming army first defeated the Safavid Kingdom's 50,000 former troops in the Congling area, killing 13,000 enemies, taking 26,000 prisoners, and seizing war horses and other baggage.

Later, Li Laiheng, the governor of Ningxi, led the Ningxi garrison to ambush 30,000 Tsarist Russian troops, mainly Cossack cavalry, southwest of Kashgar Lake.

In this battle, the Ming army killed more than 10,000 enemies, captured more than 12,000 people, and captured more than 5,000 war horses, but no other baggage was counted!

After this battle, Tsarist Russia, which had experienced two major defeats, did not retreat. Instead, he began to build fortresses and switched from offense to defense. It seemed that he was determined to carve up a large area of ​​land west of the line from Kashgar Lake to Congling.

, that is, the central and eastern areas of the Kazakh grassland.

At the same time, Tsarist Russia and the Safavids, with the help of the Qing Jin Ministry, continued to include many nomadic tribes in the west into the coalition, and put forward the slogan of "reject the Ming Dynasty in the east and drive out the Ottomans in the west."

After receiving support from the border troops and garrisons of Anxi and Ningsui provinces, the Ningxi Governor's Office won two major victories and contained the eastward offensive of Tsarist Russia and Safavid.

However, compared to the coalition forces, the Ming army was still at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers. Because of Tsarist Russia and the Safavids, they also successively added many troops to the Kazakh grasslands during this period.

In addition, the weather was unbearably hot and unsuitable for large-scale operations. Whether it was the Ming Dynasty, Tsarist Russia, or the Safavid coalition, they had no choice but to stop fighting and build fortresses on the spot to consolidate their territory.

The Ming Empire took advantage of this time to continue adding troops to Ningxi from other places.

By September, the Ming Empire had stationed 200,000 troops in the Ningxi Dudufu, including eight divisions of border guards, 11 divisions of garrisons, and one division of the Imperial Guard (cavalry division).

Tsarist Russia stationed 150,000 troops west of Lake Kashgar!

The Safavids stationed 200,000 troops in the southern area of ​​the Kazakh grassland to the west of Congling!

There are also about 100,000 nomadic tribesmen who were coerced and lured by the Shassa coalition.

Therefore, the Tsarist-Russian-Safafa coalition is known as half a million people!

In September, after the weather turned cooler, the two sides continued to test each other with thousands of armies along the line from Lake Kashgar to Congling, competing for strategic locations, making each other's fronts staggered like canine teeth.

By October 18, a full-scale war finally broke out between the two sides.

Counting civilians, this battle, in which millions of people from both sides invested, lasted only seven days and ended.

Because the Shassa coalition found that it was no match for the Ming army, the army was constantly defeated by flintlocks and artillery clusters.

The performance of the Tsarist Russian army was relatively good. Half of the 200,000-strong army of the Safavid Kingdom was lost in a few days, and the remaining troops were defeated and defeated!

On November 9, the Safavid Kingdom took the lead in sending envoys to Ningxi to seek peace with the Ming Dynasty through the Ningxi Governor's Mansion.

On November 23, Tsarist Russia also sent envoys to seek peace with the Ming Dynasty.

At this point, the Ming Dynasty completely won the Central Asian War involving the three major countries of Tsarist Russia and Safavid. Later generations called it the Great Victory of Ningxi!
Chapter completed!