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Chapter 670 Entering the Yenisei River Basin

With the capture of the city of Yakutsk, after the Great Chu Empire established Zhenbei County here, it also announced that Russia's colonial expansion in the Lena River Basin and the region east of it in the past few decades has come to naught.

Even strategic locations, transportation hubs, and Yakutsk, the Russian Far East's strategic support point, have been lost. It is no longer possible for the Russians to continue to maintain their colonial presence in the Far East.

At this time, although Russia still has some sporadic colonial strongholds in the Far East, how long can these last?
How many months?half a year?a year?
Even the most optimistic Russians don't think they can last more than a year.

As for bringing back the city of Yakutsk, if the Russians had the ability, they would not have lost this vital city before.

Everything has become a foregone conclusion.

Now for the Russians, what they have to do is not to recapture the city of Yakutsk and regain control of the Far East, but to think about how to protect the Yenisei River Basin.

You must know that after the Chu army captured the city of Yakutsk, they did not stop their pace of expansion.

Winning the city of Yakutsk is just the early strategic goal of the entire northern strategy, and there are still middle and late stages behind it.

The medium-term goal of the Great Chu Empire's northern strategy is to control the Yenisei River Basin.

To seize and control the Yenisei River Basin, several strategic cities must be captured.

Bearing the brunt of the Upper Tunguska River, that is, Bratsk in the middle reaches of the Angara River, this city is an important frontier for the Russians to resist the Chu army's invasion of the Angara River and even the Yenisei River.

Because it is on the upper reaches of the Angara River, that is, close to Lake Baikal, that is, the estuary of the Xiaobeihai, where the Great Chu Empire is located in the Xiaobeihaifu area, and it is also a strategic support city for the entire area around the Xiaobeihai: Kur City.

There is only more than 500 kilometers between the two cities!

If these more than 500 kilometers are placed in other places, it may be a very long distance, but for Siberia, which is sparsely populated, this distance is actually very close...

The distance between Beihe City, the strategic city of the Chu Army in the Lena River Basin, and the city of Yakutsk, controlled by Russia, is more than 1000 kilometers away.

So the concept of distance in Siberia is different from other places...

Because the city of Chur controlled by the Great Chu Empire and the city of Bratsk controlled by the Russians are close to each other, and both belong to the cities along the Angara River, this also makes the two countries increase the size of this area. At the same time, in the past many years, the two sides have fought frequently and fiercely around the middle and upper reaches of the Angara River.

The battle with hundreds of people was fought at least a dozen times, and the battle with a thousand people was fought as many as three times.

This level of fighting is already not easy in the Siberia region, and for the artillery units that both sides rely on logistics...

If the Chu army wants to take the Yenisei River Basin, they must first pull out the Russian stronghold of Brazk, and then they can go all the way to the northwest along the Angara River, and finally kill the Russian army to control the entire Yenisei. A strategic support point city in the Sai River Basin, a transportation hub: Yeniseysk.

The strategic position of Yeniseysk is very similar to the city of Yakutsk on the Lena River, both of which are located in the center of the entire river basin.

And it is important, it can even be said to be the only transportation hub.

Therefore, the Russians attach great importance to these two places, built large fortresses, stationed a large number of troops, and organized many immigrants to go there.

In the past, these two major cities served as strategic support points for their colonial expansion in Siberia, serving the expansion of immigrants.

But in the past five years, the strategic role of these two cities has become the core support point for defending the northward expansion of the Chu army. Relying on these two cities, they can continuously mobilize troops and materials, and then go to the frontier fortresses. Fight against the Chu army.

Therefore, after taking the city of Yakutsk, the city of Yeniseysk became the next strategic goal of the Chu army.

It is also the core goal of the entire northern strategic medium-term plan.

After all, the medium-term plan of the northern strategy is to control the Yenisei River Basin, and to control the Yenisei River Basin, then this Yeniseisk must be taken down, otherwise it will be impossible to control the Yenisei River Basin.

In order to capture Bratsk and more importantly Yenisesk, the Great Chu Empire Army prepared tens of thousands of troops in the city of Chur
The overall force is more than that involved in the attack on the city of Yakutsk.

Because Yeniseysk is closer to the hinterland of the Russian-controlled area, the Russians can get more support in manpower and material resources locally, which means that after the Chu army fights over, they will encounter greater resistance.

It is worth noting that, in terms of terrain, the area west of the Yenisei River is dominated by plains, that is, the West Siberian Plain, and continuing westward is the Eastern European Plain.

Except for a Ural Mountains and a river in the middle, it can be called a flat river.

This kind of flat terrain is also the reason why the Russians have expanded very smoothly in this area before. They can more easily get support from the west, especially the European region, in terms of troops and materials.

This also means that when the Chu army attacked the Yenisei River Basin, the resistance of the Russian army would be even greater.

Under such circumstances, the Chu army will naturally have to prepare more troops and more supplies for the battle, otherwise wouldn't it be embarrassing to run over and fail to fight...

Among the more than 1 army troops, the proportion of cavalry is also quite large. There are more than 4000 cavalry troops, while the infantry, artillery and baggage forces add up to only more than 7000.

The reason why there are so many cavalry troops is that the waterway conditions of the Angara River are very poor, which will greatly affect the Chu army's use of this river for troop mobilization and supply transportation.

In fact, the main river that the Russians used to connect the Lena River and the Yenisei River Basin was not the Angara River, but mainly went down the Tunguska River and other streams, and also crossed several land and water links during the period, that is, walking Land between two rivers.

As for the channel of the Tunguska River, that is, the Angara River, they actually didn’t go much. After all, the navigation of the Angara River is very bad, and if they are not careful, the boat will be destroyed...

This time when they marched into Bratsk and even the subsequent Yenisesk, the Chu army also considered that the navigation situation of the Angara River was relatively poor, so the transportation of troops and supplies of materials fully took into account the situation of ground transportation.

The mode of water and land relay and coordinated transportation is adopted.

Specifically, in some river sections where the navigation conditions permit, the river transportation will be carried out. When the navigation conditions are not good in the river section, then the personnel and goods will be landed, and then ground transportation will be carried out.

Such waterway relay transportation finally completed more than 500 kilometers in the early stage, and a long troop mobilization and material supply route of more than 1000 kilometers in the later stage.

For this reason, in addition to the army and navy personnel, the Great Chu Empire sent out a group of various technical personnel, including those who built infrastructure such as cities, docks, and warehouses, as well as a large number of various craftsmen and technical personnel who felled trees on the spot and built ships. .

In order to build various types of docks, fort strongholds and build ships, carriages and other facilities on the spot.

There are more than 2000 people in the construction team that accompanied the army alone, and most of them are technicians... As for the ordinary labor force... Either the military soldiers will take it by the way, or some local indigenous people will be recruited on the spot .

In the vast Siberia region, in addition to the Chu people and the Russians, there are actually many local indigenous peoples. There are quite a few of these indigenous people in the Angara River Basin and Lake Baikal. The Chu army built a series of cities in the area before In other activities, it is indispensable to recruit local aborigines to carry out construction.

The expansion of the Great Chu Empire in the Siberia region is relatively moderate on the whole. Basically, as long as the local indigenous people do not resist, cooperate with the Great Chu Empire’s reclamation policy to carry out reclamation, and accept enlightenment, then these indigenous people will be They govern as their own people.

Who makes this poor place that few local immigrants are willing to come here, and the construction of a large number of city bases and military reclamation tasks are important, so some local naturalized aborigines will be absorbed for construction to strengthen the actual situation of the Great Chu Empire in the local area. control ability.

Speaking of it, Russia and the Great Chu Empire adopted similar policies in the Siberia region, using military to defeat the organized resistance of the local indigenous people, and then building fortresses and stationing troops in local areas with convenient transportation or densely populated areas to organize immigration , Exile criminals in the past to enrich the population.

At the same time, it directly rules the local aborigines, conducts fur business with the local aborigines, collects taxes, and so on.

Through the continuous increase of various fortress strongholds, one after another cities are formed to complete the overall actual control of the local area.

Having said that, in fact, the Great Chu Empire also referred to the Russians' set... and found that this set is simple and reliable. Apart from the hidden dangers of leaving some foreigners, there are no major shortcomings.

Even if they are aliens, the Great Chu Empire is not afraid. The Chinese nation has thousands of years of experience in turning aliens into their own people.

With the various enlightenment policies of the Great Chu Empire at present, from traditional customs to language and writing, the comprehensive enlightenment of living habits, coupled with the intermarriage policy, after a few decades, if you say that the local indigenous people are not Chinese but barbarians, they will have to Fall out with you... You are the barbarian, and your whole family is a barbarian...

The most important thing is that there are not many indigenous people in the entire Siberia region...not counting other places. Let’s say that in the vast area east of the Yenisei River, all the local indigenous people add up to a population of only a few 10. Wide branch in such a huge area.

Relying on the population advantage of the Great Chu Empire, it won't take long to assimilate them all.

This is different from Nanyang and other places. Nanyang is too densely populated, and it is very troublesome to assimilate. Moreover, immigrants from the empire are also willing to spread rumors that the land is fertile, and you can harvest a full warehouse of Nanyang by just spreading some seeds. Immigration from Malacca and other places.

Therefore, the expansion of the Great Chu Empire in the Nanyang region adopted a simpler and more straightforward method, directly driving away the natives and freeing up land for the immigrants from the native land to cultivate.

Simply put, you need land, not people...

In terms of territorial expansion policy, the Great Chu Empire did not stick to one policy, but adopted different policies according to local conditions. For example, in India, the Great Chu Empire adopted the method of indirect colonization.

Generally speaking, on the side of the Great Chu Empire, you can see almost all ways of colonial expansion, good or bad.

In Siberia, a relatively moderate expansion method was adopted, so that the Great Chu Empire could obtain local indigenous population resources locally.

The Russians can recruit young and strong to build fortresses among the indigenous groups that are attached to them, and even recruit young and strong to organize militias.

Naturally, the Great Chu Empire could recruit local young and strong to build cities and transport various supplies for the army.

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After everything was ready, the Yenisei dispatched army of the Great Chu Empire officially set off from the city of Chur and went up the Angara River.

This day is June [-]th.

During this period of time, in fact, the Chu army's battle in the Lena River Basin and the area east of it has not yet ended... No, the Chu army had not actually captured Zhenbei City at that time.

The battle of the Chu army against the Lena River and the Yenisei River was actually started at the same time, but the Lena River side started earlier because the preparations were completed earlier.

On the Yenisei River side, because it is more difficult to transport supplies, there is more preparation work in advance, so the departure time is slower.

When the Yenisei dispatched army went north, the Chu army's Lena River dispatched army had successfully captured Zhenbei City and continued the follow-up combat operations.

Although the Chu army captured Zhenbei City, there are still several Russian colonial strongholds in the farther north, that is, the lower reaches of the Lena River, such as Zhigansk in the lower reaches of the Lena River.

There are also some small strongholds on several tributaries of the Lena River, and in the wider area to the east, there are also strongholds such as Zashwirsk and Lower Kolymax.

The remaining strongholds of these Russians still need to be cleaned up one by one by the local troops of the Chu army.

But this no longer affects the Chu army's large-scale offensive in the Yenisei River Basin. After all, it is the Third Army that is responsible for fighting the Lena River and the area east of it.

It is the Second Army that is in charge of operations in the Yenisei River Basin.

When the Yenisei Expeditionary Force under the Second Army, with more than [-] people, under the cover of many naval ships and sailors, went down the Angara River to Bratsk.

In another direction, thousands of Chu cavalry marched northward along the upper reaches of the Yenisei River in late June. There were mountains blocking the road in this direction, so the march was even more difficult, but in order to contain the The strength of the Russians, in conjunction with the main force of the Yenisei dispatched army, the Second Army still sent thousands of cavalry northward here.

The marching style of these thousands of cavalry going north is different from that of the modern army. It belongs to the marching mode of the traditional nomads, that is, driving a large group of horses, sheep and other livestock northward, and they also bring enough ammunition.

Theoretically, this troop does not need any logistical supplies, and even if they do, they will not get supplies...

They had to be self-reliant, all the way along the upper reaches of the Yenisei River over the mountains and mountains, and then entered the relatively plain area to fight.

In both directions, the Second Army of the Chu Army dispatched a total of 5000 troops to pull carts in battle, and more than [-] horses, cattle and sheep were incidentally used as food.

As they headed north in a mighty way, the Russians soon learned the news that the Chu army had killed them on a large scale, and the Russians in Bratsk, who were the first to bear the brunt, were even more panic-stricken.

Although this place is at the forefront of the strategy, there are actually not many local troops, and the resident troops are only more than 2000. These troops are the result of the continuous increase of Russian troops because the threat of the Chu army is too great.

However, there are tens of thousands of Chu troops attacking, and tens of thousands of them are equipped with guns...

If the nomads in the early years attacked, even if they lacked guns, they would come to [-] to [-]. The Russians are not worried at all. They can rely on the castle for defensive operations. When winter comes, those natives will naturally You have to get out of here.

But it was Chu Jun who came!
The level of weapons and equipment of the Chu army is better than that of Russia.

They still don't have absolute confidence in whether they can hold on in this situation... With Titan's uneasy mood, while strengthening the city defense and shrinking their troops, they also sent people down the river to Yenisesk for help.

Yeniseysk is Russia's political and military center in the Yenisei River Basin, and even the entire Siberia, where there are more troops to reinforce them.

In other words, at this time, they actually didn't know that the Russian army in Zhenbei City had already defeated and surrendered. The Chu army fought a siege and annihilation war, and did not let the Russians come out to pass the news.

Therefore, whether it is Yeniseysk or the Russians in Brazsk, they still don't know that the Lena River Basin is completely finished.

If you know...and once again understand the real and powerful combat power of the Chu army, I am afraid that the Russian army in Brazsk will not even have the courage to resist, but will choose to run away directly, and flee directly back to Yenisesk. A newspaper group to keep warm, instead of foolishly resisting the Chu army in Brazik.

The distance of more than 500 kilometers is not a big problem for the Chu army. Although there are no formed roads, the overall terrain is not rough, and the Chu army has fought against the Russians in this area for many years. Over the years, many reconnaissance cavalry and survey teams have been dispatched to find out the terrain along the way, and a suitable marching route has been formulated in advance.

There can be river transport there, there is land transport there, and there is a clear plan for the specific direction.

Under such an alternation of waterways, it took the Chu army more than a month, that is, July 27, to arrive outside the city of Brazik.

At this time, the Chu army fighting in the Lena River Basin had already captured Zhenbei City and launched follow-up operations, but in the Angara River, the first large-scale contact between the Chu army and the Russians had just begun.

And this contact is definitely not a good memory for the Russians!

There are more than 2000 Russian defenders, facing more than 1 Chu troops outside the city, it was okay at first, but when dozens of artillery from the Chu army started shelling, they were dumbfounded...

The general of the Russian army saw the situation and knew that he would not be able to hold it. In order to avoid the destruction of the former army, he decisively ordered a retreat that night.

After overnight preparations, before dawn the next day, these Russian troops took dozens of small boats and started running.

The Chu army took down the middle reaches of the Angara River, Russia's most important frontier stronghold on the Angara River, and the outer barrier of Yenisesk: Brazsk without a single soldier.

And those Russian troops who fled did not all escape.

The third brigade of the Chu Navy's Small North Sea Fleet discovered the enemy's attempt to evacuate from the river by boat, and immediately intercepted and pursued it... After the interception operation, at least [-] Russian troops were killed, wounded and captured.

Only a thousand or so Russian remnants fled to Yenisesk in a hurry.

And with the fall of Brazik, it also means that the Chu army can directly approach the city of Yenisesk!
(End of this chapter)