Chapter 215 Northern War
Several sounds of cannons rumbling.
He took away the arrogant Khabarov, a madman who would later insert the Tsar's flag into the Heilongjiang River Basin.
However, all of this was completely lost.
Before Khabarov's death, it seemed that the first negotiations were seen in Luzhuang camp, and the sound of cannons around him seemed to have become still.
A cannonball took away Khabarov's forehead, blood poured in. Then another flowering bullet exploded beside him, and he disappeared in an instant.
“Seven, eight, nine……”
"A total of ten shells were fired before hitting the target!"
Sha Kuo kicked the Tianyue Artillery beside him with one kick.
The gunner looked aggrieved.
In fact, with the technical level of grassland people, this is already a good achievement.
The target of a single person is too small, and the cannon cannot be as accurate as a gun, not to mention that in order to "experience" the excitement, he deliberately distanced the distance.
Such a level can already play a certain role in siege battles.
The artillery was pulled down, and the cavalry was the most confident in the Tianyue Army.
"Commander, let's go there next?"
A general came over to ask, and there were corpses of Rakshasa people behind him, as if all the killings were completed numbly without any emotion.
After all, the Tianyue Army was originally the prototype of mercenaries, but after being domesticated, it gradually developed its own style.
Sha Kuo looked behind him and said calmly: "The Russians are not dead yet, continue to go north!"
"Here!"
The combat form of the Tianyue Army is very simple, just using killing to push.
With a command, all the soldiers turned their horses back again. On that side, it was the territory that Tsarist Russia had been working on for many years.
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The distant Western Siberian plains.
Ob City.
During the expansion of Tsarist Russia to Siberia, this is the most important place, and outside the city is the plain and two great rivers converge.
The towering city was built on the bank of the Ob River. Relying on the abundant river resources, the Tsarist Russians controlled the entire Western Siberian plain.
The Ob River Basin is the main transportation channel in Western Siberia, with many tributaries and abundant water. Although it is in distant high-latitude areas, it can be navigated half of the year.
The Ob River Basin is located on the westernmost side of the three major rivers in Siberia.
The upper reaches originate from the Altai Mountains, and after originating from the mountain, it flows northwest, crosses the Western Siberian plain, and finally flows eastward into the Ob Bay of the Kara Sea in the Arctic Ocean, and is also the longest estuary in the world.
The Ertzis River, a tributary of the Ob River, was the only river flowing into the Arctic Ocean in later China.
Ob City is open to all sides and has relatively convenient transportation.
Since the Siberian Khanate was conquered, it has been completely rebuilt by the Russians in decades.
There are Tsarist Russian city fortresses upstream and downstream of the river.
Even some basic mineral resources have been developed and utilized.
If time goes by, by the end of the 19th century, Russia began to build a railway across the Ob River, and a city called Novosibirsk began to rise.
It is hard to imagine that there will be many factories on this cold land three thousand kilometers away from Moscow.
It also has a group of the best universities, museums and theaters in Russia, becoming the economic, scientific and cultural center of Siberia...
At this time, in Ob City, there was a black fortress.
This is the base camp of the Stroganov family, which controls the Far East.
Further down there is the Ural Mountains, the pass to the Eastern European plains.
Mikhar Stroganov was dressed in gorgeous clothes and was walking repeatedly in the castle.
As the third duke of the Stroganov family, Mihal was very anxious at this time.
Because judging from the latest information, another expansion activity this year has completely failed.
Moreover, the cost of this failure was too painful, and all the thousands of troops prepared were destroyed.
He also lost a lot of fur merchants under his control.
"His Majesty the Tsar has always attached great importance to Siberiado.
The destruction of an army of more than 3,000 people means that there will be no conditions for advancing eastward in a short period of time!
It was originally a piece of cake, but enough land had been built!
The turmoil in Central and Siberia is no longer as simple as the rebels who are in the Pushu."
Mihal held his huge belly and said with resentment on his face.
As the top Russian aristocrat, Mihal was full of barbaric temperament. Not only Mihal, but also people in Ob City were like this.
With a strong sense of expansion.
If at this time of this year, the merchants in the entire city would gather here lively and entrusted the Stroganov family to dump them into Europe with all the goods.
Then exchange for rich money or land and enjoy the leisure and happiness.
But this year is particularly deserted, and many businessmen have begun to dare to go deep into too remote places because of rumors on the front line.
The only person who can still reach the Far East is the only one who can see Diana.
At this time, the great butler, Klausf, pointed to a farm on the map and said, "Duke Mihal, to be precise, we only died more than a thousand people!
Judging from the current situation, we can still fight back."
Mikhal's great butler, Klausf, circled a direction on the map, with many fortresses and cities built on it.
If we look at it this way, the land lost on the front line is nothing.
And in addition to the Ob River, they can also have the lower reaches of the Yenisei and Lena Rivers as the front line.
Unlike Diana, the butler Klausff is in charge of most of the affairs of the Western Siberian plains, and he is still very confident in the current strength of the Russian army.
And more than 60 years have passed since the first time to occupy this area.
Judging from the current situation, the vast plains are almost equivalent to Tsarist Russia's land, and relying on the development of land and taxation, they continue to strengthen their strength for Russia's mainland.
With the tamed indigenous people, the population has exceeded 350,000.
This has already taken the prototype of a European kingdom and continues to extend eastward.
Klausf, who is good at calculating, will not give up on his expansion.
"Klausf, you must know that we have killed 1,300 people, but the cost of cultivating a Cossack is also expensive."
As a family of merchants, Mihal should always pay attention to the loss of property. If he encounters a strong enemy, he would rather not have a war.
But as the assistant, Klausff seemed more radical and persuaded:
"Duke Mihal, IMHO, for these savages, there is nothing better than using force directly.
It’s just that Diana is too young and may not be able to do the Far East job.
We had just compromised too much before so that people in the Far East could have a chance to develop.
In the past, our country was too small, but our soldiers were the most suitable people to kill in this world!”
Duke Mikhal pondered for a moment and said, "Klausf, you are right, Russia needs land.
But from the beginning, we have learned too little about the sudden rise of the Far East.
Of course they are not as good as the Tsarist Russian Empire, and it may be a strategic mistake in the Far East..."
"That's true!"
Klausf said with a smile, and then he took out another letter: "Oh! By the way, my dear Duke, there is also a letter sent by Diana here.
Diana actually said in the letter that people from the Far East may bring danger to Europe!
Just like Genghis Khan back then!”
"Ha ha!"
Chapter completed!