Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

No one knew what was happening, but Hu Laosan was leading them into a grass farm outside the city.

The maze of hayfields was filled with hay eaten during the winter by countless animals. One third of Karen's haystacks were stored in the Yili area.

The Uncle Hu San who had found a place with a lee said while gasping for breath, "Children, stop staying here for the night, the Sha Russian is about to attack!"

"According to what the herdsmen said, there are over twenty thousand Sharal Cossack cavalry s stationed at Ala Lake for more than half a year already. Furthermore, there are often reinforcements!"

"This winter is too cold, those Cossack people need food and fodder to feed their horses, those poor bastards have already made up their mind to take over our General Yili's mansion, you guys better leave quickly …"

"If it's not tonight or tomorrow, those Cossack s will not be able to withstand three consecutive days of snow!"

In the Uncle Hu San's mouth, a Western Region that caused people to be terrified appeared in front of them!

Ivu River Valley, strategic position is very important, this is a triangular alluvial plain, you must know that the Sky Mountain is not directly east and west.

They were heading towards the northeast from the southwest. The western section of the Sky Mountain Range and the western section of the Kunlun Mountains were actually connected together, they were both an extension of the Pamir plateau.

The Sky Mountain Range extended northwest to the Hami region before connecting with the desert wilderness as one!

Tianshan also had branches, the largest of which was Mount Borokonu!

At the confluence of Borokonu and Tianshan, the northern foot of the mountain was called Urumqi, which in the Qing Dynasty was called Kulun!

This Tianshan Branch extended northwest, forming an angle with the Tianshan Branch.

And this geographical angle, was precisely the Ili River's watershed!

The two mountain ranges formed a wide triangle, the large and gentle opening just so happened to be aimed at the west, at the Lake Barkish, and also aimed at the ambitions of countless other races!

As we all know, the boundaries of ancient human territory are divided according to the geographical environment, which has a great military effect.

Rivers, forests, deserts, mountains... It could form a series of strong defensive lines that were easy to defend against and hard to attack.

Whoever controlled the strategic location would be able to use a small number of troops to ensure the safety of their country!

The Tianshan Mountains and the Bolo Konu Mountains were such barriers. If one fell into the hands of the Chinese, it was easy to guard against the foreign invaders in the west.

If they fell into the alien's hands, they could look down on the whole Xinjiang!

The Ivu River Valley was at the dividing point at the northern border of the Southern Wilderness, which was the axis of the Northwest border.

There was no problem in raising millions of horses in the valleys of such a fertile river, and the immigrants could afford five or six million.

If they slowly managed this, it would become the best logistics base for supplying supplies to the army!

What was worse was that in this strategic area of the triangle, the most gentle opening was aimed towards the west, in other words, the direction of the enemy's attack.

This meant that the enemies were attacking in a flat land, directly moving forward along the river, the most dangerous places were all at the back of the Yili!

During the year of the dryad, when the people of Qing Government were calming down, Ah Gui and other important people wrote to the people of requesting the establishment of a general's mansion in the Yili to guard the Western Region.

In 1762, the dryad ordered the construction of Huiyuan City in the Ivu River Valley and the establishment of the position of General Yili. With the city as the core, she controlled the entire Ivu River Valley area.

By controlling this place, he could control the south and the north!

However, as the Qing Dynasty's national power gradually weakened, the Western Tribes started to get restless. The first was Yaqub's rebellion against the pars dorsalis, which started to engulf the entire southern border.

It was impossible for the area of Yili to not be affected. Tongzhi had been well-informed in the past five years and had been surrounded by pars dorsalis thugs within the General's Estate less than three years after taking office.

At that time, the entire Yili area was already in chaos, Yaqub and the local rebel soldiers started to kill and loot, preparing to take over the Ivu River Valley.

General Ming Wen had no strength to fight to the end. He had to retreat to the inner chamber and burn his own family down to sacrifice his own country!

On the other hand, General Ming Wen's deputy, the Yili's Counsellor, Rong Quan had become the strongest official in the Yili. At that time, he had assigned Rong Quan to borrow food from Sha Ao, but who would have known that the Sha Russian would not only not borrow food, he had actually detained him.

It was only until the chaos in the Yili that Rong Quan took the chance to escape. As there were no soldiers around him who could suppress the rebellion, he could only flee to the Northern Frontier Tower city.

In the tower city, Rong Quan was appointed as the new General Yili. He was starting to organize training for the Kazakh and Mongolian soldiers.

Two General Yili s, a whole family had died a tragic death and a lonely northern city had retreated. A power vacuum had suddenly appeared in the entire Yili region.

"My dear ones! Guess what? " Hu Laosan said with a bitter face as he smoked.

"It's really strange, those Yaqub rebel soldiers and rebel gangsters actually started to retreat! from Tongzhi's fifth year to now, it's been ten years! "

"To think that there are no enemies fighting in the Yili anymore. The veterans like us who were left behind in Karen managed to maintain order, and we managed to do so for five years!"

"Why do you think it is?"

At the side, Sir Gordon's face darkened as he suddenly said, "Why else? Of course it's the Russian!"

When the Uncle Hu San saw the British large nose, he was not willing to speak. At the side, Duo Luo advised, "Third Uncle …" This Sir Gordon is not an outsider, this is the His Majesty's General Yu Du! Someone who has been rewarded with a yellow vest! "

"I won't hide it from you. My name is Duo Luo, and this is Guan Lu …" All of us are from the Manchu, we are all guards for the Emperor in the Forbidden City! "

"What?" Uncle Hu San's hand trembled, and a pot of red-hot soot appeared in his hand. "Aiyo, aiyo, don't fire!

Seeing the identity token of the Golden-purple City, of course the Uncle Hu San wouldn't understand. However, he could choose to believe that these relatives from the south would come.

"Wuwuwu …" Third Uncle wiped away his tears and cried, "It's good that Your Majesty didn't forget this place. It's good that you didn't forget us old bastards!"

"I kowtowed to the lords!" After saying that, the Uncle Hu San was about to kowtow to Duo Luo, Guan Lu and Gordon.

How could these people bear to make the older soldiers kneel down and worship them? Now, they no longer had the bad habit they had in the Beijing.

"Don't kowtow to us …" I think we kowtowed to you... If you want to kneel, do it towards the Beijing … Let's give His Majesty a knock! "

"His Majesty!" Uncle Hu San faced Beijing and kowtowed to him, "Oh, His Majesty!" Why didn't you send someone over earlier … Wu wu wu … "We're guarding it too hard …"

"We're not afraid of death. We're just afraid that we won't be able to defend ourselves in the end …" Even if I were to die, I won't be able to bury my body in the ground! "

"His Majesty... Don't lose this piece of dirt... "Wuu!"

"I've finally met my relatives in the Central Plains …" "I've finally seen it …"

At that moment, whether it was the Manchu, the Chinese or the Europeans, all of them cried!