Xinshun 1730

Chapter 37 Bold Ideas

There must be a demon in the abnormal situation.

In Du Feng's view, it is normal for the Raksha people to build forts, increase troops, cultivate and even plunder tribes for furs, and this is not a special case.

However, there is a Kunlun slave among the Raksha people, and this black Kunlun slave is actually an officer, which is a bit abnormal.

Since it is abnormal, it is necessary to mention it.

Bitter cold place, Russian fortress, black people... These keywords are connected together, and Liu Yu naturally thought of who this is.

If you guessed right, this should be a very legendary figure.

He may not be well-known, but he has a great great-grandson named Pushkin... We all know that Pushkin has black blood, and that's where it comes from.

This man is the adopted son of Peter the Great, godson of the Queen of Poland...

Originally the son of a tribe on the coast of Chad in Africa, he was trafficked to Constantinople as a slave in Turkey, and was later bought and given to Peter the Great.

Because of his cleverness, Peter, as his godfather and Queen of Poland, the Marquis of Bayreuth of Brandenburg, as godmother, converted to the Orthodox Church after being baptized.

After that, it was similar to Liu Yu's path, becoming Peter's bodyguard and secretary, which can be regarded as a "Honored Guard" background in a sense.

Followed Peter to Europe for investigation, because he was smart, proficient in "Western learning", and proficient in Latin and French, Peter was very popular after the Westernization reform, and he was a confidant.

He studied at the French National Military Academy, studied military engineering, served in the French army, and rose to the rank of captain.

He also talked and laughed happily with Voltaire and others in the Paris salon, and was called "the black eagle" by those enlightenment scholars.

After returning to China, he was born as a close servant of Xunwei, and he was a brigadier general after he was familiar with Western studies.

In the end, he became the Russian general and Estonian governor.

As a black man, he became a "master" with more than 18 white serfs in the era of slave trade in the 600th century, which cannot but be called a legend.His son even commanded the Marine Corps to land in Greece, and is known as the Russian general closest to the recovery of Constantinople.

Hearing Du Feng's mention, Liu Yu roughly guessed what was going on.As soon as Peter died, the queen came to power and had a grudge against this man. Historically, he was demoted to the border to build a fortress on the Sino-Russian border.

It is estimated that the world is similar, the losers of the North Korea-China struggle are thrown to the border.

The black Liu Yu had also seen it in his previous life, and he was not as shocked as Du Feng.

But have to be careful.

If it's really this guy, he's in big trouble.

This man is a very good fortress engineer, and he has studied in France.Marshal Vauban's Star Fort building technology is unique in the world, the best in the world, this man is quite the essence.

Historically, he also presided over and participated in the construction of the Kronstadt Fortress and the Ladoga Canal, and the level of engineering technology is indeed very high.

Historically, this person was exiled to Lake Baikal because of court struggles, and presided over the construction of the Selenginsk Fortress.

Now, under the change of history, this person did not go to Lake Baikal to repair the fortress, but ran to the Songhua River, which made Liu Yu's already tense nerves more sensitive.

Two points of support for the Russians on the frontier.

One is the upper reaches of Lake Baikal and Heilongjiang. Lake Baikal is north-north, and the north is too cold. If you want to expand eastward, you can only go to the south bank of Lake Baikal.

The other is Stepanovsk, which is not far from Handoli City. It is located at the confluence of Songhua River and Heilongjiang River, where it can be attacked and defended.

If the Zhuxia Kyushu is used as an analogy, then Stepanovsk opposite Handoli City can be compared to Jingxiang in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

If Jingxiang was won in the Northern Dynasties, the defense line in the south of the Yangtze River was equivalent to nothing.Those who won Jingzhou and Xiangyang in the Northern Dynasties but did not go to the south of the Yangtze River did not exist.

This black engineer ran from Lake Baikal to the Songhua River, explaining a very important issue.

In the original history, the Manchu Qing and Russia fought Yaksa twice, let’s not mention how they fought, at least let the Russians understand one thing: with their delivery capabilities, at least at this time they cannot continue to expand in the Far East , has reached the limit that national power and technology can support at this time.

Therefore, even if the black man was implicated in the court struggle, the Russian tsar and her face had not yet made full use of them, and asked her to build the Selenginsk fortress on the shore of Lake Baikal in order to control Buryatia Mongolia as the eastern border of effective rule.

In this time and space, the battle to test each other's strength has not yet been fought.

This black man was thrown here instead of Lake Baikal, which can only prove one thing: the Russians believed that they could continue to go south on the banks of the Amur River, instead of using Lake Baikal as the eastern frontier of effective rule in the 18th century.

This black man's engineering attainments are really high, very high, and he participated in the construction of St. Petersburg, has strong organizational skills, and has a strong relationship with the military.

Once the fortress is fortified according to the French system and garrisoned with 2000 people, it can directly cut off Dashun's control over the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River and the coast of the Wusuli River.

In this era, there is no French-style star castle stationed with 2000 people, and there is no 3 to [-] people who cannot surround it.

Dashun's delivery capacity can only maintain a maximum of 2 people in this kind of place, and if there are more, the logistics will not be able to bear it.

This position is like the castle of Xiangyang, which traps all of Dashun's mobile forces. If there is a fight, the initiative will be completely in the hands of the Russians.

Now Dashun wants to fight to the north to test Russia's strength and determine the northern frontier; the Russians seem to have the intention to fight to the south. That's the way it is in the Central Plains where the fishy food is...

Liu Yu panicked, calmed down, and asked, "Are you sure this person came this year?"

If it had come before, it would be a big trouble. I am afraid that Star Castle has a little system.

If this is the case, then it is necessary to prepare for a long-term siege by mobilizing the artillery team from the capital and the jumping gang and sword shield sailors from Fujian.Other than that, he couldn't think of any other way to deal with a star-shaped fortress with its back against the river.

Seeing that Liu Yu cared so much about this "Kunlun slave", Du Feng thought that his guess was right. Could it be that these people's coming this time was related to this change of the Raksha people?Could this Kunlun slave be some important figure in Rakshasa?
Then he stopped hiding his secrets and said: "My lord, I just came this year. Last year, we also went to the Raksha people's castle to sell some tea cakes and rhubarb, but I didn't see this person. The earliest is It just came this fall."

Hearing that, Liu Yu was relieved.

Autumn is coming...um.

Heilongjiang has only two seasons, winter and around winter.

In theory, autumn has only 20 days around August [-]th.

Once autumn is over, the ground is frozen and construction cannot be started. Even if there are machines like excavators and pile drivers in the future, they will have to rest obediently in winter, let alone now.

Since it is only autumn, it seems that the construction of this fortress has not happened yet, and the time is just right.

Assuming that there are 500 people on the opposite side, the 500 people defended by professional engineers and French technology star castles, and the 500 people defended by an earthen village are not the same concept at all.

In particular, the engineer had acquired Vauban's true inheritance of the castle's offensive and defensive tactics. Once the fortress was completed, it would be a nail that could not be gnawed at all.

Looking at Du Feng and other frontier soldiers kneeling on the ground, thinking about the marksmanship of these people who shot the horse just now, if the frontier soldiers have this level...

Thinking secretly, Liu Yu had a bold idea in his heart.

(End of this chapter)