Chapter 1126: The Water Master Meets Unexpectedly
Mai Ke's guess is not bad at all!
Nikolai Muravyov, the governor of Tsarist Russia in Eastern Siberia, has been planning for a long time to occupy the Weilong River!
The basin of the Lulong River, regardless of whether it is on the south bank or the north bank, is full of beautiful and rich land, which is enough to make the tsar and his supporters of expansionist policies salivate!
Beautiful or not, they don't care, their goal is to grab profits, as Marx pointed out sharply, capital comes into the world, from head to toe, dripping with blood and filth from every pore.
The tsar and his supporters were not particularly bad, they were just faithful representatives of the laws of the operation of capital.
If capital wants to be profitable, which one cares if it is dirty or not?
As long as you can make a profit, you don't have time to care about beauty.
Therefore, they have no time to appreciate the beautiful scenery along the Lulong River, and they also turn a blind eye, and the copper smell of capital has made them lose their ability to appreciate beautiful things.
Therefore, they are bloodthirsty, they kill like hemp, they give up the good things and love the dirty things instead.
Before his accession to the throne, Governor Nikolai Muravyov had a separate meeting with the Tsar, and in terms of family relations, he was also the Tsar's nephew, so the two were not strangers.
The tsar explicitly gave him two tasks, but the priorities of these two tasks were not the same!
The capture of Siberia is a long-term goal.
Occupying the Weilong River, and then completely occupying the north bank, and speeding up the encroachment on the south bank, is the top priority, and 100,000 urgent!
The tsar's abacus crackled, although Siberia is good, it is far worse than the banks of the Weilong River!
Especially on the south bank of the Weilong River, it is simply the land of fish and rice!
There are also countless years of accumulated wealth, young and middle-aged labor, which really made the tsar salivate!
Such a good place, he the tsar did not rush to grab it. Hold it in your hands, and someone else will grab it!
For example, the neighbor to the west, Germany, was soon taken to a lot of good places along the Bohai Sea? Their next step was definitely to take action against the Weilong River!
And this Longjiang River is particularly long!
Not only does it occupy the second longest length among China's rivers, but it also occupies the sixth place among the world's longest rivers!
The total length is more than 5,500 kilometers!
This number was obtained by a secret expedition sent by the Tsar.
In order to get these numbers, this group of 100 people went through a lot of hardships. Especially when the enemy attacks, in the end only two people are left to come back.
Moreover, these two people were also seriously injured and returned to Moscow, and after the report, they died in less than two months.
According to them, they were attacked everywhere by local residents, and more than half of the expedition members died in such attacks.
Under their description, the local population is very savage. They cannot be tolerated at all.
However, the actual situation is that they were originally invaders, hostile and vigilant to the local population, and they themselves were motivated by the need to survive, and secondly, because of their nature, they first committed brutal acts, thinking that when the enemy killed them, they would be killed, and the sky was high and the emperor was far away. No one cares about them, no one even knows!
They slaughtered a village of forty or fifty families!
Originally, their plan was to kill them all. But I missed a teenager who went out to collect firewood!
In this way, bad news spread far and wide, and everyone around them knew about their evil deeds.
Since then, they have become street rats, and everyone shouts and beats!
Although the expedition members were completely annihilated, they still got a complete number.
They summed up the results of their investigation, that is, the total length of the Weilong River is more than 5,500 kilometers!
This is an advantage that does not exist in the entire territory of Tsarist Russia!
The Lulong River traverses the vast land and leads directly to the sea. Such land and water transportation convenience must be obtained!
The dragon river must be snatched!
The tsar even did not hesitate to make an exception and promised to make Nikolai Muravyov the crown prince, as long as he could take the Weilong River!
This last one is an irresistible bait for Nikolai Muravyov!
This is also the hole card he dares to challenge Roshande!
If I can take the Longjiang River, I will be the next generation of tsars. What am I?
My future is bright, how can I listen to your words and throw myself into the Rausch Heavenly Army?
However, he didn't expect that the desert cavalry of the Heavenly Army was so fierce that they would suppress the Cossacks, who were famous for their fierceness!
To be practical, the Governor-General Nikolai Muravyov was very disgusted with the unruly Cossack cavalry!
You're skilled, but you're not invincible, are you?
Can't you be more low-key, more civilized, and a little more human?
At the beginning, seeing that the Cossacks were beaten by the desert cavalry of the Celestial Army, he was quite happy, and felt that he had also breathed a sigh of anger!
However, when he saw these arrogant people with no one in their eyes, beaten into lost dogs, he realized that something was wrong!
Thankfully, he was prepared!
So they used the Cossacks as a trick to cover up the whereabouts of the Russian army, but also to use it as a shield to drag the heavenly army and prevent the heavenly army from disturbing their military intentions.
As for their life or death, he doesn't care, it's your luck to be alive, and it's your life to die!
This castle already has a passage underground, and it is well equipped by land and water, Nikolai Muravyov just prepared some necessary military supplies, and it was ready as soon as it was ready.
He had already sent someone to find out where this secret passage leads, and he was overjoyed with the results!
It turns out that this dark channel is connected to the Shileqi River, one of the source rivers of the Weilong River, and the river that is directly connected to the dark channel is called the Yinguoda River, and this dark river is actually the source of the Yinguoda River.
From the Yinguoda River to the Guò Shileqi River, it is the Lulong River!
Then he prepares the boats, dredges the waterways, repairs the roads, trains the troops, and waits for the right moment.
The meeting he convened today was originally intended to concentrate superior forces and carry out a large-scale advance by land and water, not only to pocket all the Siberian regions that have not been completed, but also to realize the invasion and occupation of Chinese targets that have long been spied on.
More appetizing things, take the entire Weilongjiang into your pocket!
He can't forget the title of crown prince at midnight!
Who knows, the weather is unpredictable, wind and rain, and the meeting is well planned. Messed up by these mischievous Cossacks!
I didn't expect that they had to make trouble to make a start, and it would get worse and worse!
The eldest brother, who had been against him since he was a child, came from nowhere, and he was ashamed to ask me to surrender to the Heavenly Army, and even threatened. Say what is the right step and go to heaven, and the wrong step is to go to hell!
Do you think I don't know anything? I can be a devout Orthodox Christian! Do you know what Orthodox Christianity is? That is, to adhere to the orthodox Christian faith!
Also, I read the Bible every day! Heaven and hell or something, as you say, can only be decided by a person's step?
Nikolai Muravyov was full of contempt for his eldest brother Roshand, but he was still jealous of the White Russian mercenaries he led.
However, as soon as I heard that he only brought 100,000, I didn't care much.
As soon as those Cossack generals came forward. Nikolai Muravyov thought that the overall situation was decided, and no matter how the eldest brother chose, there was no curse.
After all, 150,000 Cossacks against 100,000 White Russian mercenaries, who had no hope of winning.
Who knows, this stupid big brother, and his right hand, he actually colluded with the desert cavalry, and was able to press the Cossacks one-on-one!
He wanted to think about the swords that cut the Cossacks again. I was still shocked, and the scene of those fierce Cossacks being cut in half by a saber is vivid!
Faced with such a scenario. Nikolai Muravyov immediately decided to retreat into advance, abandon the Cossacks, give up the strategy of fully occupying Siberia, and monopolize all the way to the Heilongjiang River!
Right now. The sailors he led included an entire fleet, a total of a hundred warships, all of which were of the most advanced warship technology, and all of them were made of steel.
Such a battleship is simply powerless with ordinary armor-piercing shells!
In addition to battleships, there were a large number of troop carriers. Bring together all the 200,000 exile divisions of Ers, as well as the mountain division.
Nikolai Muravyov knew that Siberia by land would no longer have to worry about it in a short period of time, and there was nothing that could be done;
He has no way out, he has no other way out, he can only make a name for himself on the Weilong River in order to be appreciated by the tsar and be killed!
If you don't succeed, you will be benevolent!
The fleet and the fleet went down the road, and thousands of mountains and rivers flew by, and there was a trace of tragic atmosphere!
Not far ahead, it is the junction of the Heilongjiang River, where the three streams meet, and from there, it is officially called Heilongjiang!
To the east of the junction, there is the main stream of the Weilong River, and to the west of the junction, there is another source river of the Heilongjiang River, named the Krulun River.
The fleet was moving forward, and suddenly the sentry on the watchtower shouted: "There is a fleet ahead!"
"Where?" asked Nikolai Muravyov aloud.
"It seems to be at the junction of the three rivers!"
Nikolai Muravyov knew that the Tsar had sent admirals to the sea at the mouth of the Lulong River, and that it would not be impossible for them to penetrate here if they moved quickly and smoothly.
I hope it's them, don't make the Qing fleet!
"The report, it has been seen that it is the fleet of the Qing army, with the dragon flag of the Qing Dynasty hanging on it!"
I'm really afraid of something!
Besides, Lao Tzu is not afraid of them, but he is just afraid of trouble!
"All of them! Encounter Qing warships ahead! Advance at full speed! Open fire with all your might! Charge with all your team! Destroy the enemy ships in one fell swoop! Anything that cannot stop the advance of our Great Russia!"
At this order, the whole team immediately entered a state of imminent battle, not only the various guns of the fleet were loaded with shells, but the infantry carried on the ships were also ready to shoot with bows and arrows!
At this time, the horn of the Qing army fleet also whined!
The big war is on the verge of breaking out!.
(To be continued......) R1292