Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Chapter 884 Maozi's Growth History

In the court hall, when Zhu Youjian saw the battle report, she was furious. She thought that Daming was strong enough now. After the expedition team sent by the Raksha Kingdom was killed in the outer northeast, they should not dare to attack Daming again.

For the past two years, he has also been focusing overseas, temporarily putting aside this country with great wolf ambitions, but now he finds out that his thinking is wrong, the Raksha country is still ignorant of the mighty Ming. , actually united with the Kazakh Khanate to attack the Ili River Valley that Daming had just taken back.

The Ili River Valley in the later generations was also divided into two parts because of the invasion of the Raksha Kingdom. Zhu Youjian would never let them happen in this situation. She wanted to let Lao Maozi know how powerful Daming was.

The courtiers were talking about King Ding's discovery of the New World, and suddenly saw that the emperor's face was not right, and they guessed that it was the bastard who had no winks that poked the hornet's nest again. Everyone immediately calmed down and looked at their majesty.

Only Sun Chengzong and Qi Jiguang knew what was going on, and they forwarded the battle report to the emperor. Obviously, the emperor was disgusted by that Raksha country.

Zhu Youjian carefully recalled the development of the Raksha Kingdom in later generations. He knew it was time to deal with the old man, and his mentality gradually calmed down.

The history of human civilization is concentrated in the Eurasian continent, and the civilization of the Eurasian continent is concentrated in the four major plates of China, India, the Middle East, and Europe. Since the birth of human civilization to the arrival of the age of great navigation, it has not changed for thousands of years .

This is true of all influential empires such as the Egyptian Empire, Assyrian Empire, Persian Empire, Macedonian Empire, Mauryan Empire, Qin-Han Empire, Roman Empire, Sui and Tang Empires, Arab Empire, Mongol Empire, etc.

However, the conquest movement of a country in modern times in the east-west direction completely changed all this, and this is Russia's eastward advance.

The history of Russia originated from the Slavs, and together with the Germans and Celts, they were once called the "Three Barbarians" by Rome.

With the collapse of Rome, the Germans eventually became the masters of western Europe, while the eastern part of Europe was dominated by the Slavs.

The Slavs are divided into Eastern Slavs, Western Slavs, and Yugoslavs, and Russia belongs to the Eastern Slavs.

By the 9th century AD, the Eastern Slavic tribes established the Rus State in Kiev (now the capital of Ukraine), which was called "Kievan Rus" in history. Kievan Rus was the predecessor of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, and the history of Rus' civilization began.

Before the arrival of the Mongols, Kievan Rus was just a small inland country in Eastern Europe, which had little influence on the history of world civilization.

In 1240 AD, Batu, the grandson of Genghis Khan, conquered Kievan Rus and established the Golden Horde.

The history of the Mongols ruling Russia was far longer than that of the Central Plains Dynasty in my country. It was not until Ivan III defeated the Mongols and gained independence in 1480 AD. At this time, the Ming Dynasty had been established for 112 years.

After the Byzantine Empire was destroyed by the Ottoman Empire, Ivan III married Princess Sophia, the niece of the last Byzantine emperor. Since then, Tsarist Russia has been known as the "Third Rome".

In 1547 AD, Ivan IV proclaimed the Tsar (that is, Caesar), and Russia entered the empire era.

The Mongols are called "civilization killers", but this is not the case for the Russians. Most of Russia's political and military systems were taught by the Mongols. It is not an exaggeration to say that the Mongols brought civilization to the Russians.

After the rise of Russia, its conquest all the way to the east was actually a reverse conquest of the Mongols.

In 1552 AD, Russia conquered the Kazan Khanate

In 1556 AD, Russia conquered Astrakhan. Since then, the Russians have controlled the Volga River Basin and crossed the Ural Mountains into Asia.

In 1581, Russia conquered the Siberian Khanate, which opened the prelude to the Siberian expedition.

From the 17s to the 30s, Russia had crossed the Yenisei River, reached the Lena River, the Chukchi Peninsula and the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, and traveled all over Siberia.

That is to say, for China, when the Ming and Qing dynasties changed, Russia's influence had already reached Lake Baikal and the outer Xing'an Mountains.

In 1643 AD, the year before the Ming Dynasty fell, Russia invaded the Heilongjiang River Basin.

In the process of Russia's eastward advance, there were almost no opponents, and the Mongols had been torn apart until China temporarily stopped the advance of Tsarist Russia in Yaksa.The Qing Dynasty went south to rule the Central Plains, and the Russians almost copied the old nest.

Before Yaksa, the Eastern Captives and Tsarist Russia had engaged in many small-scale conflicts, and the Eastern Captives had the upper hand.

However, the Tsarist Russian troops lived scattered and attacked by small groups of troops. As a result, every time the Eastern Captives sent troops from Ningguta, the distance was far away, and the enemy troops could not be wiped out.

Obviously, the first contact between the Eastern captives and Tsarist Russia was not pleasant.

Tsarist Russia's Eastern Expeditionary Forces have always hoped to invade the land south of the Heilongjiang River and east of the Ergun River, and established the Nerchinsk Warlord District.

At the same time, Tsarist Russia has been inciting Sauron to rebel against the Qing Dynasty.

In 1682, Kangxi sent the crown prince Shaobao Dong Eshi Pengchun to secretly go north to investigate the movement of the Tsarist Russian army.

Peng Chun reported to Kangxi that "Tsarist Russia has occupied Yaksa for a long time, relying on its wooden city, if it sends three thousand troops and twenty red cannons, it can be attacked." Kangxi decided to actively prepare for the war.

In the 24th year of Kangxi, Kangxi decided to go to war after repeated negotiations to no avail.

In April 1685, Peng Chun led 4 people and marched towards Yaxa. May 3000.Peng Chunlie's warships were in the southeast of Yaksa, and the guns were set up in the north of Yaksa.

After persuading the surrender to no avail, Peng Chun bombarded the city of Yaksa.Yakesa wooden city was burned down immediately.

Tsarist General Toburzin surrendered.Toburqin vowed never to return to Yaksa City.

In 1685, Tsarist Russian General Toburzin received 600 reinforcements and returned to Yaksa again.

Kangxi was furious when he heard the news. He dug trenches around the city of Yaksa and deployed more than 2000 people to attack the city. Toburqin was shot and died in the battle.

On August 8, the Qing army was unable to attack for a long time, so they besieged the city of Yaksa.The city ran out of food and countless people died of starvation. In the end, there were only 25 people left (Tsarist Russia said there were 66 people left).

Tsar Ivan V was only a nominal tsar at that time, and the power was in the hands of his sister Sophia Alexeyevna Romanova.

Sophia urgently asked the Qing Dynasty for peace, and Kangxi allowed her to make peace, and allowed the remaining Tsarist Russian troops to withdraw to Nerchinsk.

In 1689, Qing Russia signed the Treaty of Nerchinsk.It is stipulated that the entire outer Xing'an Mountains to the south and the Wusuli River to the east are the territory of the Qing Dynasty.

The "Treaty of Nerchinsk" was also the first unequal treaty in which a victorious country gave up a large amount of land.

The ancestors of Dongyao made such a good start that their descendants almost ceded China.

It can be seen from this war that in 1689, the military quality, military weapons, and tactical configuration of the Qing Dynasty were not inferior to Tsarist Russia at that time.

After the 1648-year war in Europe that ended in 30, the military quality, weapon tactics, and war will of the European subjects were even inferior to the Qing army at that time to a certain extent.

The Qing army pursued the maximum firepower output of muskets at that time, and even the firepower output efficiency of the Qing army's nine-in-one and ten-column tactical array at that time was better than that of the Swedish king Gustav II Adolf's musket line infantry and artillery in the 30-year war. Bombardment, cavalry assault tactics are higher.

These war tactics actually left certain traces of cold weapons, so they are called pre-modern wars.

However, in the fourth year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty, the Napoleonic Wars opened up a brand-new tactic and started the era of post-modern warfare. This was the beginning of the Qing Dynasty's backward military tactics.

The characteristic of the pre-modern wars of the Qing army was that it always relied on soldiers with cold weapons to protect the musketeers.

During the Napoleonic period, basically 90% of the army soldiers were equipped with muskets and bayonets.

And musketeers not only focus on shooting training, but also on assassination training.Musketeers no longer need the protection of soldiers with cold weapons, which increases the density of bullets when soldiers fire.

In the 12th year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty saw the gap between itself and the West under the bombardment of British warships.In the end, the modern history of China's suffering and humiliation began.

(End of this chapter)