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Chapter 917 Occupying the City of Yakutsk (Part [-])

Yakutsk is an important castle built by Tsarist Russia in the Far East in the first half of the 17th century.Its importance is not even inferior to Moscow in the eyes of later generations.

Because in the 16th century, Tsarist Russia was still a Principality of Moscow centered on Moscow, which had a small area in Europe.

In the early 17th century, Tsarist Russia entered the period of the Romanov dynasty. This nearly 100-year dynasty period was the rise and most powerful period of Tsarist Russia.

It stood out from a small closed country in Europe. In the early 20th century, it suddenly became a European and even world power, straddling the Eurasian continent, with a land area of ​​2280 million square kilometers and a population of more than 1 million.

During these 100 years, he invaded and expanded everywhere, the most important thing was the invasion and expansion to the Far East, the vast Siberia, East Siberia, East Siberia, northward to the Arctic Ocean, and southward across the Outer Xing'an Mountains to invade China's Heilongjiang.

During a hundred years, they used various means to occupy more than 300 million square kilometers of land in China, including Outer Mongolia, Lake Baikal, Outer Xing'an Mountains, and Sakhalin Island.

The reason why Tsarist Russia invaded and expanded so frantically is that he has an important stronghold in the Far East, which is the city of Yakutsk.

Open today's world map, the city is already in sight.

It was built on glaciers and permafrost, and the temperature difference between day and night even exceeded 50 degrees. It is normal to be twenty or thirty degrees below zero. If you spit there, it can break into several petals.

But such a cold ice city has become a hot spot for Tsarist Russia's aggression and expansion, and it is also a concentration camp where they invaded China and committed heinous crimes against the local people.

The head of the city of Yakutsk is Franzbekov, or the governor, and his right-hand man Poyarkov.

Boyarkov is as famous as Khabarov. Both are national heroes of Tsarist Russia. He became famous for invading China, but he was earlier than Khabarov.

Now he ran back to Yakutsk with three or five thousand Tsarist Russian expeditionary forces, and reported the fiasco to his commander Franzbekov.

Franzbekov, the Prime Minister of the Far East of Tsarist Russia, was stunned: Could it be that the sleeping country in the East has woken up?

It turns out that these Tsarist Russian invaders with blue eyes and big noses dared to invade China.It was because the Ming government at that time had reached the late Ming period in its dying years.

Tsarist Russia would never have dared to do this during the prosperous Ming Dynasty.But Daming began to decline step by step since the Wanli period.Just imagine what is waiting for a court that has not been in power for 30 years without declining?

Despite Zhang Juzheng's one whip method, Wanli Zhongxing, the three major Wanli campaigns, these unworldly works, during the 45 years of Wanli's reign, Daming was a turning point from prosperity to decline, especially in the middle and late Wanli period. Official chaos, cabinet disputes, eunuch chaos, and the court's 30-year absence from power, these important factors that led to Ming's demise step by step, came one by one.

Later, another carpenter emperor with strange skills and prostitution was delayed for another eight years. By the time Chongzhen succeeded to the throne, it had become a mess riddled with holes.Therefore, the Tsarist Russian invaders regarded it as the sleeping country in the east and began to encroach on his territory.

But now these Tsarist-Russian invaders are starting to be astonished. Nearly 40 troops from the Fourth Route Army of the Ming Army stationed troops on the Sino-Russian border, advancing northward.Earlier, Li Dingguo's team had already shown their edge in the Ural Mountains, making these Tsarist Russian invaders realize that the Ming Dynasty was not all cowards.

Now, from Zhang Xianzhong’s men and horses occupying Aihui, to the later Battle of Yaksa, and then to the victory on Lake Baikal, it took about one month before and after. Tsarist Russia’s defeat began with the Cossack mercenaries, and then the more than 3 expeditionary forces were still defeated. ,unstoppable.

In the area of ​​Lake Baikal and Yaksa, the Tsarist Russian invaders lost more than 4 horses in just one month.

On the seashore to the east of Lake Baikal, that is, the Sea of ​​Ekhotsk, where the Amur River Basin enters the sea, the more than [-] Ming expeditionary forces commanded by Zhu Yousong and Li Zicheng even conquered several strongholds of Tsarist Russia. Khabarov was also killed. The city of Harov in China was also renamed to belong to the daimyo, and the Komsomolsk city in Tsarist Russia also fell, and the army of the Ming Dynasty had already reached the coast of Erhotsk.

Is it worth it if it goes on like this?

Franzbekov felt that the Ming Dynasty was going to play big this time. Now that they invaded the land of China, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty had already taken it back even more vigorously. Pushing forward in depth, there is no intention of stopping at all.

Their more than 1 Cossack warriors, government mercenaries, and more than 3 expeditionary troops of the Russian regular army were also useless. The Governor of the Far East of Tsarist Russia hurried to their Majesty King Alexei I and the Navy and Army. Commander Morozov wrote for help.

But Yakutsk is more than 8400 kilometers away from Moscow. In the era when there were no trains and planes, Franzbekov’s writings reached Alexei Moscow, and then they sent troops to Hasakh in Eastern Siberia. region is too long.

Zhu Yousong's expeditionary force will not give him time.

One month later, in October of the lunar calendar in the sixth year of Hongguang (AD 1650), Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's men and horses joined together. Under the personal supervision of Zhu Yousong, more than 20 Ming expeditionary troops marched by land and water. surrounded the city of Yakutsk.

And that's not all.Huang Degong's men have swept across Central Siberia.Li Dingguo's troops occupied the entire West Siberian Plateau. These two groups of troops, 10,000+ troops, have cut off the connection between Tsarist Russia and the Far East.

Now it is difficult for the Tsarist Russian army to cross the Ural Mountains and the Ural River, let alone cross the vast Siberia and Central Siberia to East Siberia in the Far East to break the siege of Yakutsk.

Yakutsk is now an isolated city.There are more than 4 Tsarist Russian expeditionary troops in the city, standing still and waiting for help.But this winter, they probably have no hope.

Because then Zhu Yousong ordered the expeditionary force to launch a fierce attack on this isolated city.

The artillery fire of the Ming army was extremely fierce, and ice and snow were blown up by several feet thick glaciers and permafrost.Even the solid ice on the Lena River could not hold back the strong guns of the Daming Navy. After firing the red cannon, the main naval warship of the Ming Army broke through the ice and moved forward.

After a burst of fierce shelling, the Tsarist Russian Expeditionary Force in the city suffered heavy casualties, and Poyarkov was blown to pieces by the red cannon.

After persisting for a few days, Tsarist Russian Governor Franz Bekov hoisted the white flag.Then the city gate opened, and Franzbekov led thousands of Tsarist Russian expeditionary troops to surrender to the Ming army with their hands raised high.

Zhu Yousong never had much hope for these Tsarist Russian invaders who were greedy and never counted their words, and would not give them a chance to survive, so he sent a decree to kill none of them.

Zhu Yousong's 5000 Imperial Firearms Battalion and [-] musketeers from the special forces of the Ming Expeditionary Army opened fire on thousands of Tsarist Russian colonial troops.

Franzbekov and the thousands of Tsarist Russian expeditionary troops all fell to the ground and instantly turned into ice corpses.So far, the 10 expeditionary army of Tsarist Russia and the [-] to [-] government mercenaries have not survived for three months, and the entire army was wiped out.

The Ming Expeditionary Army entered the city of Yakutsk, and Zhu Yousong issued an order to strictly enforce military discipline for the unarmed Tsarist Russian people in the city.

(End of this chapter)