Great Qing Dynasty talker

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Infantry square~
Commander Wei Jun looked at the galloping enemy cavalry and couldn't help but turn his head to look at the heights not far away, praying for victory in his heart.

An officer saw this and asked in a low voice:

"Commander, should we send one or two companies back to support the flag?"

"No need. Follow the pre-war arrangements and do your job."

"Yes."

The hollow square of infantry remained motionless.

The light cavalry began to assemble, and the knights were busy loading their pistols, picking up broken spears on the ground, and preparing for another battle.

……

Overhead, cannons roared.

The Wu army's heavy artillery deployed on the gentle slope at the top of the hill opened fire, and solid bullets fell into the group of Kazakh cavalry rushing towards them, cutting their way out.

but,
A mere 20 guns won't change anything.

The leather-robed herdsmen, who were poorly equipped with only a scimitar, leaned forward with their buttocks off the saddle, and stood nearly vertical, whipping their horses desperately.

This is a standard action for cavalry when charging.

It can increase the horse speed to the highest in the shortest time.

……

Hilly slopes,

The auxiliary soldiers wearing thick leather gloves cut the fixed ropes and unfolded rolls of barbed wire.

The two of them worked together to pull apart the overlapping circular wire meshes, and then rolled them down the gentle slope.

One after another, like a rolling dragon.

This was the first time that Wu’s army used epoch-making new weapons on the battlefield on a large scale.

Ah ~
The Kazakhs were fortunate to be the first army in the world to experience the power of barbed wire and breech-loading flintlock rifles firsthand.

The cavalry charging up the hill seemed to be under a spell.

They fell down in rows.

The warhorse struggled hard, but the barbed wire became tighter and tighter, and blood was dripping all over.

They wailed and asked their owner for help.

The herdsmen waved their machetes wildly, chopping at the soft barbed wire.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the Khan's guards following closely behind used the grassland men's signature skill - obstacle jumping.

……

Abu Khan took the lead.

Although he is not a powerful leader, he can be considered brave and good at fighting.

He controlled the horse under his crotch to jump twice in succession, and using the small space, he miraculously jumped over the untouchables who were writhing in pain.

His iron helmet fell to the ground.

But he didn't care. He held up his scimitar, his gray hair fluttering in the wind.

"Go ahead, warriors."

What a beautiful picture of “Khan leaping on horseback”.

……

As expected, Abu Khan's horse was unable to dodge the attack. It staggered and fell to the ground with a bang.

The 400-jin weight pressed the noble master down.
The guards screamed in unison and rushed to protect the Khan.

Wu Jun saw this scene and realized that he had caught a big shot. The grenadiers immediately ignited several 50-jin rolling mines and rolled them down the slope.

Boom~boom~boom.

There were several loud noises in succession.

There are no more survivors around the explosion site.

More spherical bombs were flying in the sky, explosions were heard one after another at the foot of the hill, countless corpses and barbed wire were blown away, and blood mist filled the sky.

……

mountain top.

Li Xiaowu pointed at the enemy infantry gathered in the distance.

"Rockets, fire."

20 simple launchers fired 320 heavy rockets at the fastest speed.

The bullet fell like a meteor.

The Grim Reaper's scythe is swinging.

The Kazakhs were defeated.

The advantage in numbers cannot offset the generation gap in weapons, and humans are not fearless robot dogs.

The Middle Juz Sultan accidentally fell off his horse and died while fleeing, while the Great Juz Sultan died fighting. Abu Khan could not even find a complete body.

Only the little Juz Sultan escaped.

He didn't even have time to gather his herdsmen.

……

While you are sick, I will kill you.

Wusimai's light cavalry began to chase and kill.

Wei Jun's infantry no longer formed a battle formation, but dispersed to fire at the fleeing enemy cavalry from the flanks.

The Qing army also arrived.

They cheered as they intercepted the Kazakh infantry.

The killing ritual reached its climax at this moment.

From noon to dusk, from the hills to the skyline, the enemy's corpses were spread out for 30 miles.

……

Judging the timing, Li Xiaowu calmly ordered the troops to gather and set up camp, and at the same time ordered Xiqing to send an envoy to pay a visit.

Yongyan himself didn't dare to come.

Just in case, we have to have a Hongmen Banquet.

However, several generals and royal family members from Xiqing came.

"We are entrusted by the Great Khan of Xiqing to meet the general of the upper country. We offer 2000 cattle and sheep, 5 carts of gold and silver, 10 women, and a hostage."

Li Xiaowu stared at the kneeling proton and sneered:
"An ordinary royal family? Why don't you send your Khan's son?"

"General, you don't know that our Khan has no children yet."

"Bullshit."

"We are willing to swear on the altar of the country that the Khan's wife had a son, but she miscarried due to the bumpy journey. Now the concubine is pregnant. After the child is born, we will raise him and send him to Suzhou as a hostage."

……

Li Xiaowu nodded and began to give orders:
"Xiqing sent 1 troops to pursue him closely and sweep across Central Asia. We will kill him while he is weak. I'm sure you understand this principle, right?"

"Whoo."

"Also, your people will clean up the battlefield with their bare hands. Be sure to burn and bury all the bodies, and don't leave any hidden dangers."

Everyone was solemn.

He flapped his sleeves and knelt down to receive the order.

After a war, if the bodies are not handled in time, everyone will die. Similar things have happened too many times in the Western Regions.

……

A peaceful night.

The next day,

The Qing cavalry pursued westwards.

There will be some results, but not too many. Both sides are well aware of this.

Li Xiaowu led his troops to retreat eastward to the Ili River Valley that day.

Yongyan led his troops away and continued westward.

Only 3000 Xiqing people were left to clean up the battlefield. They were busy for five days. The corpse pits stretched for miles and the fire burned day and night.

A very small number of Wu army scouts watched from afar.

……

All the firearms left over or captured on the battlefield were given to Xiqing.

The war horses and cold weapons returned to Wu.

Starting today,
The Great Juz and Middle Juz regions of the Khanate were nominally "under the protection of the Wu court". Yongyan fled to the Lesser Juz to cause trouble, while developing his skills in the wild.

Both parties are tacitly aware.

Li Xiaowu divided his troops to garrison the Ili River Valley and Alashankou and built fortifications.

Half a month later~
The first batch of Gansu immigrants finally arrived.

Yili is nicknamed "Jiangnan outside the Great Wall".

In fact, the scenery here is completely different from that in the south of the Yangtze River.

The Ili River Valley is beautiful, with almost no natural disasters and very good agricultural and pastoral conditions.

No matter where you are from, once you come here, you are a Yili person. The land is divided on the spot, 50 mu per person.

Unlike the Northeast, Wu Ting collected 50 kilograms of grain per mu per year in the Yili region, and the people were required to contribute 20 days of corvee labor every year.

……

While reporting the victory, Li Xiaowu was also developing military farms and city defense.

The Colonial Office arrived.

In accordance with His Majesty's instructions, the Ili River Valley will be built into a logistics warehouse for the empire's border within a few years.

In the future, we will go to war with Rakshasas.

Yili needed to solve most of the logistical supplies for the Western Expedition Army locally, rather than relying on long-distance logistics transportation.

Your Majesty is well aware that there are coal mines and iron mines in Yili.

In fact, the entire Western Region is rich in mineral resources.

First, start the coal and iron industry. One set of official kilns and one set of folk kilns.

Iron products are supplied to the Northwest in peacetime and to the army in wartime. In the future, they will also be supplied to railways.

……

People from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries have arrived.

Select a suitable area, establish a settlement farm, recruit immigrants as workers, and grow cotton locally.

There is no area more suitable for growing cotton than the Western Regions.

Li Yu thought deeply.

On the one hand, large-scale cotton cultivation in the Western Regions could reduce the logistical pressure of the army's westward expedition, and on the other hand, it could also serve as a guard against the Saxon East India Company.

now,

The empire's cotton textile industry's demand for raw cotton increased month by month.

The empire's army was advancing rapidly in Southeast Asia.

The East Stick and the West Stick are about to meet in victory in the city of Ava.

……

Xigun was already surprised~
Sooner or later, the West Stick will take action to control the East Stick. Of course, the East Stick will also silently hit the West Stick.

Minor friction is almost inevitable.

Therefore,
Managing the Western Regions is a crucial move. If the cotton is grown well, at a critical moment, it can destroy plantations around the world in one fell swoop and make countless people bankrupt.

It’s exciting to think about.

……

A few months ago, at a closed-door meeting of the empire's top brass.

His Majesty said:
"~We will strive to build a complete agriculture, animal husbandry, cotton textile, and iron smelting industry with the Ili River Valley as the center within three years. In the future, when the empire deploys troops to Central Asia, it can solve the logistics nearby."

The important officials agreed with this.

When fighting a war, it’s all about logistics.

The logistical support of a one-way journey of 5000 or even 8000 miles is such a nightmare.

but,

If the area around Yili can really be developed into a new Jiangnan with complete agriculture, animal husbandry, mining and industry, then there will be nothing to be afraid of.

Let go and hit.

He was beaten for three to five years, and the nobles of St. Petersburg went out to sing flower drums.

……

In order to achieve this goal as quickly as possible,

Wu Dinh declared:

"Within five years, all merchants who open factories in the Western Regions will not have to pay a single cent of tax."

"For the next five years, all merchants mining in the Western Regions will only have to pay 5% tax. After that, the tax will increase by 2% every year until the full amount is collected."

Businessmen generally won't open factories in places this far away because the market is limited.

But I am interested in mining.

The mining industry is different from other industries. As long as you obtain the mining qualifications, it is difficult to make a loss.

Especially metal mines, which have great profit margins.

The profits from coal mines are relatively low.

Small-scale excavation is only necessary to ensure the fuel needs of surrounding factories and daily life.

……

The tax reduction and exemption promised by Wu Ting was actually to help merchants hedge transportation costs and unpredictable risks.

Merchants will definitely seize this time to mine desperately.

The more production, the better.

The guests have promoted the prosperity of the Western Regions.

Under the baton of money, human potential is enormous.

……

Wu Ting's machine is cold and efficient.

In the autumn of 1781, there was a continuous stream of immigrants migrating westward through the Hexi Corridor.

Before winter came, more than one million people crossed Alashankou.

They will establish settlements along the two rivers.

One is the Ili River, which eventually flows into Lake Balkhash.

The other is the Irtysh River.

The immigrants from the Northwest are tough.

Li Xiaowu distributed the cold weapons left behind on the battlefield to the immigrants in the Irtysh River basin, asking them to hold swords and guns in one hand and hoes in the other.

If you need anything, find it yourself.

Cattle, sheep, felt tents, wives, look around, you might find them all.

……

Yili City welcomed a group of uninvited guests.

Rakshasa Mission.

"Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov, Commander of the Crimean Garrison, Lieutenant General of the Army, Envoy Plenipotentiary to the East, by order of Her Majesty the Empress."

Li Xiaowu was a little confused when hearing such a long name.

Receive people with courtesy, neither humble nor arrogant.

According to common sense,
It shouldn't be a general who comes to the East as an envoy. St. Petersburg has plenty of aristocratic sons who are suitable for diplomacy.

But Catherine had her own considerations.

The apparent mission of the Suvorov Mission was to facilitate trade between the two countries.

The hidden mission is to assess the military strength of new neighbors and expand territory.

……

While in the territory of the Khakkes Khanate, the Suvorov delegation witnessed with their own eyes the defeated herdsmen who were in a state of panic and learned the outcome of the war from them.

This time, it is called the Second Great Disaster.

The last time it was caused by the Dzungars.

There was chaos and war in the Khanate, with bandits and thieves running rampant.

Finally, the delegation, escorted by soldiers from the Little Juz Fortress, crossed the Caspian Plain, the Turan Plain, the Kazakh Hills, and finally arrived in Yili.

Li Xiaowu keeps his mouth shut.

Suvorov stayed in Yili for three days and found out nothing.

A team of Wu troops escorted the delegation into the interior to where they were supposed to go - Suzhou Prefecture, and the young Khan of the Torghut tribe also went with them.

Li Xiaowu didn't know who Suvorov was.

But Li Yu knew!
When Suvorov and his party just arrived in Xi'an, Li Yu took a deep breath when he saw the list of diplomatic envoys reported to him.

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In addition to Suvorov, there is Kutuzov.

If the official title was not really too high, Li Yu would have thought that it might be a duplicate name.

But Russia will definitely not have another Suvorov who can serve as the commander of the Crimean garrison.

In front of the window, the emperor said to himself:

"Isn't that old woman Ekaterina planning to expand her territory from me?"

"Who gave him the courage?"

"It seems that I have to deal with Nanyang as soon as possible so that I can free up my hands to concentrate on teaching these old ladies a lesson."

It is definitely unrealistic for Luosha to deploy troops on a large scale in the Northeast, as logistics do not allow it. Therefore, their focus is likely to be on Central Asia, and then on the Northwest.

Thinking for a long time,
Li Yu secretly summoned personnel from the Ministry of the Interior and told them to do three things.

1. Renovate an inn so that it has the function of eavesdropping through walls.

Second, find several Russian-speaking translators to be responsible for eavesdropping.

3. Find a chronic poison.

……

If necessary, Li Yu considered poisoning these two people.

of course,

The act of poisoning the envoy is of a very bad nature.

Li Yu thought about listening to Suvorov's words first. If necessary, he could poison them before they left the country and let them die of illness after a year or two.

In short, we must both save the emperor's face and see the enemy's body.

For the sake of the empire and the well-being of 300 million people, what does this little bit of morality mean?
Art students have always been good at self-comfort. They don’t need to confess in front of Buddha, they can give themselves indulgences.

……

On one hand, foreign envoys came to the court, while on the other hand, envoys of our dynasty were busy visiting vassal states.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs' external liaison forces were divided into six routes, heading to Goryeo, Fuso, Siam, Annan, Ryukyu, and Sulu respectively.

The scale is unprecedented and the purpose is clear.

He asked all these vassal states to send troops to assist the heavenly army in attacking the Konbaung Dynasty.

Last month, Yunnan reported it.

A civilian caravan belonging to the empire was attacked by unknown armed forces 50 miles east of the city of Ava. One person was killed, one was injured, two were missing, and the cargo was lost.

There are witnesses and physical evidence.

There are even testimonies from local guides hired by the caravan.

When this tragic news reached Yunnan, the new governor had a sad look in his eyes, his mouth corners raised, the upper half of his face was sad, and the lower half was excited.

While reporting to the court immediately, he also sent people to Ava city to negotiate.

The governor wished that the envoy he sent would die in Ava and be torn into pieces. (End of this chapter)