In the late Ming Dynasty, rising from the grassland

Chapter 337 The Rapidly Expanding Tsarist Russia
After the Chechen tribe decided to temporarily move to Lake Baikal to escape, they immediately sent a team of envoys to Moxi, and then began to gather tribesmen in preparation for migration.

Fortunately, it is May now, and the Little Ice Age has passed, so the summer is still very warm. Compared with the previous five or six months of winter, the winter in the past two years has been shortened to four or five months. This is also the reason why the Chechen tribe dares to move north.

Naturally, the actions of the Chechen tribe could not be hidden from Haber, who was leading an army in the south and was recuperating. When he learned that the Chechen tribe was gathering tribesmen, Haber also knew that it was impossible for the Chechen tribe to surrender directly, but he did not care.

Now that the Chechen tribe is isolated and helpless, she still hopes that the Chechen tribe will gather all the tribesmen together, and then the army will directly crush them and destroy each other in one battle. She simply does not bother to engage in harassment tactics like the Mongolians did in the past. Obviously these In recent years, I have also been greatly influenced by Lin Rui.

But what Habel didn't expect was that after the army had rested and she was about to kill them, the Chechen tribe actually moved north along the Arun River, and she was immediately stunned.

"Mother, look at this situation, they want to migrate to the vicinity of Beihai."

Everyone spread out the map, and a Han general immediately pointed at Lake Baikal and said, and everyone else nodded.

"Are they crazy? If livestock could survive the winter in Beihai, tribes would have migrated there long ago."

Hubbell frowned with a look of surprise on her face. She had learned about the situation in Mobei and the Beihai further north from the Zasak tribe when she came here.

"Mother, I'm afraid they think that as long as they leave, we will retreat after a while, and then they will migrate back before winter."

"Yes, I guess that's the plan."

"Haha, it's a pity that they made the wrong calculation. We have enough food to last until next spring."

Several Han generals immediately understood the other party's intentions and sneered again and again.

The Mongolian generals did not have such a good attitude. They did not want to stay in Mobei for the winter. After all, the food they brought was only enough for the people to eat until next spring. The war horses must have prepared extra fodder for the winter. It was too uncomfortable to be without women for such a long time. .

So they all went to Habel to ask for a fight: "Mother, the Chechen people with their cattle, sheep and children will not be able to move very fast. Let's catch up immediately. We will definitely be able to stop them before they enter the mountain."

"Our tanks are not suitable for long-distance pursuits. They are only suitable for short-distance charging. If the cavalry can catch up with them in a hurry, once the Chechen troops jump over the wall, even if they can be eliminated, the casualties will be too great, so we should push forward steadily and more Play it safe.”

"Yes, we don't need to be in such a hurry to pursue them. We can't survive the winter in Beihai, so they can just go if they want to. At that time, we only need to block the mountains. They will have no choice but to surrender and wait to die. We can surrender without a fight. With the help of human troops, Mobei was pacified at the lowest cost."

"Great!"

Compared with the impatient Mongolian generals, the Han generals are much calmer and have different ways of thinking.

Of course, I still didn’t want all the credit to be robbed by the Mongols, so I rushed to catch up. No matter the [-] dragoons or the chariot battalion, they definitely couldn’t keep up with the [-] Mongolian cavalry. As for the [-] reserves recruited Not to mention.

When it comes to verbal sparring, the Mongolian generals are naturally no match for the Han generals. Seeing that what they said was clear and logical, they didn't know how to refute, so they had to look at Hubbell.

Hubbell also had a headache. He wanted to quickly pacify Mobei, but he also didn't want to suffer too many casualties. After some tangle, he remembered Lin Rui's explanation at the time and finally decided to take it slow.

Because the conquest of Chechnya this time is only one of the goals, they also need to build a city in Mobei and the southern end of Beihai to lay the foundation for the subsequent rule of the entire northern Xinjiang.So she planned to go to Hulanhushuwen to repair the city at the foot of the Kent Mountains, while waiting for the Chechen tribe to surrender without any delay.

After all, in winter, if the Chechen people do not surrender, they will have no choice but to become savages. Their livestock and children will freeze to death, so they have no choice but to surrender.

Although the knights wanted to go back as soon as possible, Dahua's military rules were no better than the previous tribal rules. No one dared to violate the decision of Princess Habel.

So the army continued to advance in an orderly manner towards the foot of Kent Mountain, and ten days later they arrived at Hulan Huwenwen, an earthen city with only a ten-foot-high earthen wall.

Rather than calling it an earthen city, it would be more appropriate to call it an earthen castle. Hubbell would naturally look down on such a small castle.

This is the future capital of Dahua's Northern Territory Province, and at least a brick city with a circumference of ten miles must be built in a formal manner.

As for Hulan Hufuwen, it is backed by rolling mountains, faces the Aluhun River in the south, and is only four to five hundred miles away from the North Sea. Abel was too lazy to choose another place.

So in the following days, the ten thousand reserve troops were miserable. They were busy logging, quarrying, building kilns, collecting soil, making bricks, and looking for carbolic lime.

Fortunately, Wanqingzhuang itself has a large number of craftsmen of all kinds, and they are familiar with these tasks.

Twenty thousand Mongolian knights and their assistants dispersed to herd horses, ten thousand dragoons were responsible for guarding and drawing detailed maps, and the chariot battalion became a transport team.

At this time, all the Chechen tribes also entered the mountainous area, grazing along both sides of the river while heading towards the North Sea. Knowing that the Han army did not pursue them, Moder, his son and all the leaders were relieved.

Little did they know that not long after they entered the mountain, they were discovered by another group of forces who had been paying attention to them.

However, the North Sea is no longer a terra incognita, nor is it just some uncivilized savages fishing and hunting.

The forces of Tsarist Russia came here more than ten years ago. The entire indigenous tribes near Lake Baikal were either wiped out by this group of uninvited guests from Europe, or were captured and taken away to build castles and reclaim land.

At this time, Tsarist Russia had built several castles on the west and north of Lake Baikal and was expanding to the east coast.

So when he learned that the Mongols in the south were migrating to Lake Baikal, with as many as 8 people, Golovin, the Russian governor in Central Siberia, was immediately shocked.

Because Tsarist Russia has been near Lake Baikal for more than ten years, and it also knows something about the Mongolian tribes on the southern grasslands. It knows that those Mongolians will only graze in the south and will not cross the mountains to the north. Otherwise, they would have occupied this place long ago. .

Therefore, Tsarist Russia’s plan is to occupy the entire Lake Baikal region and use this as a foundation to expand eastward and southward.

Who would have thought that before their castle had even reached the southern end of Lake Baikal, the Mongols would migrate over on a large scale, which made Golovin anxious.

After all, the Mongols are no better than those indigenous tribes. Not only are they more powerful, but they are also all cavalry. However, Tsarist Russia only has 5000 soldiers in the Lake Baikal region, and only [-] in the entire Central Siberia. It is more than enough to deal with the indigenous tribes, but if you want to deal with them, There are absolutely not enough Mongolians to see in the south.

(End of this chapter)