New Shun 1730

There must be something wrong when things are abnormal.

In Du Feng's opinion, it is normal for the Luosha people to build forts, increase troops, cultivate land, and even rob tribes for furs. These are not special cases.

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

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

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

If I guess correctly, this should be a very legendary figure.

He may not be very famous, but he has a good great-grandson named Pushkin... As we all know, Pushkin has black blood, which comes from this.

This person is the adopted son of Peter the Great and the godson of the Queen of Poland...

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

Because of his intelligence, Peter was baptized and converted to the Orthodox Church with the Polish Queen Brandenburg Bayreuth Marquis as his godfather and godmother.

After that, he followed the same path as Liu Yu, and became Peter's bodyguard and secretary, which can be regarded as a "guard" in a sense.

He followed Peter to Europe for inspection. Because of his intelligence, knowledge of "Western learning", and proficiency in Latin and French, Peter was highly valued after the Westernization reform and became a confidant.

He studied at the French National Military Academy, studied military engineering, served in the French army, and was promoted to captain.

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

After returning to China, he was a brigadier general with a background of close bodyguards and knowledge of Western learning.

In the end, he became a Russian general and the Governor-General of Estonia.

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

After hearing Du Feng's mention, Liu Yu roughly guessed what was going on on the other side. When Peter died, the empress came to power, and the concubine had a grudge against this man. Historically, he was demoted to the border and built a fortress on the Sino-Russian border.

It is estimated that this world is similar. The loser of the struggle between the court and the central government was thrown to the border.

Black Liu Yu had seen it in his previous life, but he was not as shocked as Du Feng.

But he had to be cautious.

If it is really this guy, it will be a big trouble.

This man is a very good fortress engineer and has studied in France. Marshal Vauban's star fortress construction technology is unique in the world and unrivaled in the world. This man has quite mastered the essence.

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

In history, this man was exiled to Lake Baikal because of court struggles and presided over the construction of the Selenginsk Fortress.

Now, under the changes of history, this man did not go to Lake Baikal to build a fortress, but ran to the bank of Songhua River, which made Liu Yu's already tense nerves even more sensitive.

The Russians have two support points on the border.

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

The other is Stepanovsk, not far from Handori City, located at the confluence of Songhua River and Heilongjiang River, which can attack or defend.

If we use the nine states of the Xia Dynasty as an analogy, Stepanovsk opposite Handori City is analogous to Jingxiang in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

If the Northern Dynasty gets Jingxiang, the defense line in the south of the Yangtze River is equivalent to nothing. There has never been a Northern Dynasty that got Jingzhou and Xiangyang but did not go to the south of the Yangtze River.

This black engineer ran from Lake Baikal to the bank of Songhua River, which illustrates a very important issue.

Originally in history, the Qing Dynasty and Russia fought Yaksa twice. Let's not talk about how the battle went, but at least the Russians understood one thing: with their delivery capabilities, at least at this time, they could not continue to expand in the Far East, and they had reached the limit of what the national strength and technology could support at this time.

So even if this black man was implicated in the court struggle, the Russian tsar and her lover had not made full use of him, and let him build the Selenginsk Fortress on the shore of Lake Baikal in order to control Buryat Mongolia as an effective eastern border for rule.

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

The fact that this black man was thrown here instead of Lake Baikal can only prove one thing: the Russians believed that they could continue to move south along the Heilongjiang River instead of using Lake Baikal as the eastern border for 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, with strong organizational skills and strong military relations.

Once the fortress is fortified according to the French system and garrisoned with one or two thousand people, the control of Dashun over the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River and the banks of the Ussuri River can be directly cut off.

In this era, a French-style star fortress garrisoned with one or two thousand people cannot be surrounded by at least two or three thousand people.

Dashun's delivery capacity can only maintain a maximum of 20,000 people in such a place. If there are more, the logistics will not be able to cope.

This location is like the castle in Xiangyang, which trapped all the mobile forces of Dashun. If a war breaks out, the initiative will be in the hands of the Russians.

Now Dashun wants to fight to the north to test Russia's strength and determine the northern border; the Russians seem to have the mind to fight to the south. It seems that they are comfortable fighting those Jurchen tribes, and think that the Central Plains, which almost tasted fishy food in the Jiashen year, is just so-so...

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

If he came before, it would be a big trouble. I'm afraid the star fortress has already had a little system.

If so, then we must be prepared to mobilize artillery from the capital and boarding sword and shield sailors from Fujian for a long-term siege. In addition, he couldn't think of any other way to deal with a star-shaped fortress with its back to the river.

Seeing that Liu Yu was so concerned 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 the unusual movement of the Luosha people? Could this Kunlun slave be an important figure of Luosha?

So he no longer kept it to himself and said, "Reply to the adults, it was this year. Last year, we also went to the Luosha castle to sell some tea cakes and rhubarb, but we didn't see this person. The earliest he came was this autumn."

After hearing this, Liu Yu was relieved.

Come in autumn... Yeah.

There are only two seasons in Heilongjiang, winter and about winter.

In theory, autumn only lasts for 20 days around August 15.

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

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

Assuming that there are 300 to 500 people on the opposite side, 300 to 500 people defending the French technical star fort with professional engineers and 300 to 500 people defending a mud village are completely different concepts.

Especially that the engineer also got the castle attack and defense tactics of Vauban. Once the fortress is completed, this is a nail that cannot be chewed.

Looking at Du Feng and other border army soldiers kneeling on the ground, thinking about the gun skills of these people who just shot the horse with one shot, if all the border army soldiers have this level...

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