Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1133 Albazin and Hailanpao

Onufri Stepanov sat in the city of Albazin with a strange expression. What was placed in front of him was a document called the "Decree" by the southern barbarians. In fact, it was Bogd Khan who wrote their letter La.

Stepanov also knew the content of the letter at this time. He found a Tunguska translator in the city, and then translated the letter into Russian—well, the level of translation seems to be not good, read the full text It always feels weird.

"The Great, Glorious and Supreme Emperor Bogd Khan of the Glorious Great Holy Land addressed Albazin to the Governor: I am the glorious and great Emperor of the universe, and I am merciful and merciful to all people, just like a father to My son, you are now invading my land, expelling my tribute-paying subjects, and plundering mink fur and food from fishermen and hunters. You have done a lot of evil. Here is an order to persuade you to return, and I will reward you with kindness. Go At the age of 14, there were some Russians who went down the Amur River and met our army. Many people surrendered. The emperor's kindness was great, and no one was punished. The Russians of Albazin should not continue to do evil, and they should return to their homeland. Goer, then Forgive the past, and get along well with each other; if you still don't understand this reason, and force yourself to live in my territory, then the world will not tolerate you... The last time I surrendered to everyone, including Mikhail and Ivan, I once Give them a reward, send them back, and send the imperial decree with the two people, and a letter written in Manchu and Mongolian. I hope you will know everything. If you have something to say, you can send it through the two. If it is sent by someone, or you come here in person, there is no need to be afraid, there is absolutely no reason to detain it. I hereby inform Director Albazin. In February of the [-]th year of Shunzhi."

"The emperor of Tatar also pretended to be supreme, almost on par with His Majesty the Tsar, how arrogant it is." Stepanov threw Shunzhi's edict into a ball on the ammunition box, and said disdainfully.Cossacks have always respected their strength. Since Bogd Khan has nothing to do with them, then you should not expect these Cossacks to respect Bogd Khan. You must know that they are a bunch of lawless people.Especially now that the news that the East Bank people and their servants beat the Tatars on the Amur River has reached Albazin, Stepanov, who learned that the Tatar general Sharhuda has no skills, despises them even more. Although he only had more than 300 Cossack cavalry and a few Mongolian servants at hand, this did not prevent his sense of superiority from bursting.

"However, this letter is somewhat interesting." Stepanov took out the letter sent with the imperial edict—of course it is a translated and transcribed Russian version—and meditated: "Bogd of Manchuria Khan actually invited us to send troops to attack the people on the east bank again, and did not require us to storm their camps, as long as we waited to cover up their food roads from the rear and cooperate with the large-scale military operations organized by Bogd Khan in the coming year. The lower part of the Amur River to the north of Licheng was given to His Majesty the Great Tsar, what a generosity. Well, they also sent us a lot of silk, porcelain and tea, and of course the eye-catching forty-six thousand rubles (5 A deposit of ten thousand taels of Kuping silver)—it seems that the pressure that the people on the East Bank have put on Bogd Khan and his officials is really not ordinary, and I don’t know how many troops the people on the East Bank have deployed there, five hundred Or eight hundred? There won’t be as many as 1000 people, right?”

Stepanov shook his head. A 1000-strong force stationed in a certain place for a long time consumes a lot of food and grass, especially when they are still in a state of war.You must know that there are only more than 500 Siberian Cossacks in the city of Yakutsk where the Warlord Franzbekov lives.If the people on the east bank have more than 1000 soldiers in the Amur River area, it will be very difficult to raise food and grass. Because the local area is a war zone, the natives must have fled long ago. Who do you ask for food?It doesn't have to be transported from the outside world!But for transportation from the outside world, do the people on the east bank have such a large transportation capacity (Stepanov obviously did not update his information in time, let alone where the Amur River leads), do they have such a large logistics support base?If these problems are not resolved, then everything will be empty talk.

However, Stepanov obviously also saw some clues from the several victories against the Qing Dynasty in the lower Amur River on the East Bank. This was what Khabarov told him before he left. At that time, Khabarov insisted that the people on the East Bank There must be many wealthy cities in the lower reaches of the Amur River. These cities produce a lot of food and meat, and can navigate ships of a certain tonnage, and this is obviously the reason why the people on the east bank can defeat the Tatars in the local area. the reason.Stepanov took this very seriously, and being greedy, he also yearned for the imaginary rich cities on the east bank, dreaming of going there to grab one.

"Next year, it is said that Bogd Khan will recruit a large army to attack the people on the east coast, and then he may have a chance to fish in troubled waters—of course, the first thing to do is to get Father Constantine and Franzbekov, the "German bastard" Forgive me." Stepanov thought, blinking, staring at the tens of thousands of rubles worth of silver in the room with ugly blistered eyes.

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And while Stepanov was obsessed with going to the east bank controlled area to hunt grass and valleys and reap benefits, Jiang Zhiqing, who was deeply afraid of the activities of the Russians going out of Albazin to the east, also brought a team of 800 people. The team, accompanied by two small steamers full of supplies (eliminated from the local area), went further upstream on the Amur River.

They went here to survey the terrain, to be precise, to survey the site for the new city located further upstream of the Amur River—in fact, the location of the new city, which serves as the flank barrier of Khabarovsk and Model Fort, has already been determined, that is It is located on the north bank of the Amur River and the west bank of the Jingqili River on the original site of Blagoveshchensk, Russia.

The site is located at the intersection of the two rivers, the location is extremely critical, and in the eyes of the people on the east coast with naval advantages, it is also convenient in transportation, easy to defend and difficult to attack, Duandi is a good place to garrison troops and advance base.If a fortress is built here, supplemented by hundreds of soldiers capable of fighting, it will almost be able to block the Russian ambitions to the west.

Arriving at this piece of the Amur River, it is almost already in the middle reaches, and the local tribes have fled on a large scale due to the looting and killing of the Russians for more than a year-most of them fled to the south bank of the Amur River to seek shelter from Bogd Khan, A small number of people went down the river and fled into the area controlled by the people on the east bank—so, it was basically difficult for Jiang Zhiqing and others to get supplies when they went up the river. Fortunately, they had a small steamer to carry fresh water , but not worried about the lack of food.

From time to time, some huts lived by native people can be seen on the shore, but they have obviously been abandoned for some time.Jiang Zhiqing looked carefully, and saw that the scaffolding of these shacks was mostly straight willow branches inserted into the ground, and then covered with birch bark, which was very simple.There are many such houses on Sakhalin Island. The residents can only squat in them, which is extremely narrow. Therefore, no matter it is raining or raining, the residents can only cook outside the house. The natives of registered households have basically bid farewell to this primitive way of living, living in new-style houses, and their quality of life has been greatly improved.

"There were thousands of miles of fertile fields on the left bank of the Amur River. In the past, there were not enough people to plow and hunt. It's just a few years ago that none of them disappeared. It's really unreasonable. The poor military discipline of the Russians can be seen from this. It seems that this new city The construction of the village is really urgent, otherwise this land will be ruined by those Cossacks sooner or later." Lieutenant Colonel Jiang Zhiqing, who was transferred from the mainland to replace Chang Kaisheng as the commander of the Amur River Theater, said suddenly.He has served in various places in the mainland, and has also participated in the war with the Spaniards, but he has never seen a bandit gang with such poor military discipline as Lao Maozi. The village) was built to stop the Russians going eastward and protect the people everywhere.

Of course, Jiang Zhiqing felt indignant, but it didn't mean that his soldiers felt the same way.These people live in the harsh middle and lower reaches of the Amur River all year round. They have long been accustomed to fighting, killing, and life and death. Although the Cossacks are a little more ruthless in doing so, they may not be much more ruthless than them. Everyone, each other, It's just that the gentlemen from the east coast of the so-called "civilized world" can't see it, just get used to it in the future, just get used to it!

Lieutenant Colonel Jiang Zhiqing and his party finally crossed the Jingqili River on July 7, and then planted a flag on the original site of the planned Hailanpao City to declare their sovereignty.And when they planted the flag, there was actually a small-scale native village nearby, with about dozens of people, and they didn't know where they came from.They stared blankly at the soldiers on the east bank scurrying about on their land, looking at a loss and not knowing what to do.They instinctively wanted to run away, but they were a little greedy for the bacon and spirits given to them by the people from the east bank, so they finally gave in and became the guides of the east bank to inquire about the surrounding situation.

"Everyone..." While everyone was drinking spirits to drive out the cold, Jiang Zhiqing warned again: "This year's time is a little tight, and the materials are a little insufficient, so I don't ask you to make this stockade named Hailan Paocheng How good it is to repair, but at least the rough prototype must be built. When the ice melts in spring next year, there will be ships transporting a large amount of building materials to this place, so that the construction of the walled city can enter the accelerated stage."

"In addition, the Russians in the west should also step up their efforts to investigate, and we must not be negligent. We have built the stockade so close to Albazin, what will the Russians think if we don't have enough?" Jiang Zhiqing said again, "But everyone Don't worry too much. The relationship between Russia and our east coast is generally peaceful. Although the Cossacks are rebellious and often rebel, they should not attack with the whole army. What you are facing may be just some friction. ——But no matter what, Hailanpao City must stand firm, because this is one of the keys for our army to control the Amur River in the future, and there is no room for loss.”

The child's condition is unstable, and the next update may also be unstable, sorry.

(End of this chapter)