It's hard to sleep!

If Miroslavsky knew this idiom, he would definitely use this word to describe his state of mind, and for him in the Tatar palace in Shengjing, there was only one thought left in his mind at this time - when the Ming army would come.

The emperor of the Ming Kingdom came to the front!

It is impossible for the Ming Kingdom to make concessions in the Western Regions!

From the moment he learned of the Ming Emperor's western tour, Miroslavsky knew that Moscow's wishful thinking had been wrong.

"Damn, we were fooled from the start!"

Again, Miroslavsky cursed loudly.

"It's all the cunning Tatars, and the vile Naryshkin family......"

The Tatars may have been cunning, but Miroslavsky understood that their plot would be adopted by Russia only because of the support of the Naryshkin family.

Last year, Tsar Fedor III died. According to the regulations, the throne was supposed to pass to his younger brother, 14-year-old Ivan Alekseevich. However, due to his illness and incompetence, he could not participate in national politics. So the Naryshkin family elected their half-brother Peter as tsar. The Miroslavsky family was dissatisfied with this, and they controlled the Guards, so they instigated the Guards to launch a coup d'état, pushing Ivan and making him Tsar. The All-Russian Council of Gentry was held afterwards and confirmed Ivan as the First Tsar and Peter as the Second Tsar. Although Ivan was only a nominal tsar after his accession to the throne, and the actual power was in the hands of his half-sister Princess Sofia, the whole of Moscow knew about the discord between the Miroslavsky family and the Naryshkin family.

On the issue of the Eastern Governorate, the Naryshkin family supported Russia's acceptance of this vast and rich region, while the Miroslavsky family was a little hesitant and finally swallowed the sugar-coated shell with the support of the majority of the nobility.

The Miroslavsky family, who were in control of the Guard, naturally sent Ivan Miroslavsky, a famous general who had quelled the Racine rebellion, to serve as the governor of the Eastern Governorship.

Perhaps, in Russia and Moscow, poets will sing about how Miroslavsky put down the Racine rebellion, but for himself, how could he not know how huge the enemy in the east was.

"It's just a bunch of idiots!"

Drinking vodka, Miroslavsky spoke loudly to Tukhachevsky in front of him, the cronie he was holding in his hand.

"Do they really think how strong Russia is? What a joke, don't forget that almost every year, the Tatars in Crimea plundered Ukraine, Russia, tens of thousands of Slavs were plundered into slavery, and we couldn't even stop them, and now they actually want to swallow the Eastern Governorate from the mouth of the Ming State, aren't they afraid that the Ming Emperor will order his army to fight all the way to Moscow? ”

Unlike Russia, which the Tatars thought it was, had "a million armor", the current Russia is still very weak, and it cannot even resist the annual "threshing grass" of the Crimean Tatars, who plunder the Ukrainian steppes and Russia every year.

Of course, the Manchus' ignorance is fundamentally related to the fact that they have never really understood this country, they only see that this country has hundreds of thousands of brave and warlike Cossacks, and only sees that this country has tens of millions of people, so it is natural to think that this country is very powerful, and even think that this country can help them resist the threat of the Ming State, but what they don't know is that this "powerful" country has been plundered by the Crimean Khanate, which is far inferior to them in the past few hundred years. Didn't even fight back.

The Manchus did not understand, but Miroslavsky himself naturally knew very well. He is well aware not only of Russia's strength, but also of how strong his opponents are.

"The Ming Kingdom, but dozens of times, hundreds of times stronger than the Tatars, do they really want to provoke that emperor, and then they are like the Tatars back then, and in the end we are completely subservient to them?"

Listening to the general's complaints, Tukhachevsky agreed.

"Yes, the conspiracy of the Tatars, from the very beginning, everyone knew very well, but the Naryshkin family single-handedly contributed to this, because it was more beneficial to them, general, if the Guards suffered heavy losses here, then the reputation of the Miroslavsky family would be seriously affected, and it would be the Naryshkin family who would benefit in the end......"

As an official promoted by the Miroslavsky family, Tukhachevsky was born in a small burgher family, and with his personal intelligence won the appreciation of Miroslavsky, he was promoted step by step to a senior officer, and in the future he could even become a general and have a noble title, but even so, he was still a vassal of the Miroslavsky family, and his background determined all this, so he had to stand on the interests of the family.

"General, in the past year, we have fully understood how powerful the Ming State is, the emperor of the Ming State has more than 80 million people, has 38 town army, that is, nearly 600,000 army, and there are still hundreds of thousands of Mongols in Mongolia who are loyal to him, in contrast, Russia's power is limited, even if all the guards and shooting corps are combined, there are only 300,000 people, unless we abandon everything and transfer all the troops here, it is impossible to stop them, even, If we provoke the Ming emperor, then, for Russia, no less than a catastrophe, perhaps another Mongol invasion. ”

Tukhachevsky's tone was pessimistic, but for the Russians, who had just escaped Mongol rule for less than two hundred years, they could not avoid it.

"Even if you don't think about the future, right now, right now, General, the Ming people have more than 100,000 troops in Hami, and what about us? But there are only a few thousand of them, and if they come, God can testify that even if we are valiant enough, we will not be able to stop them, and even our resistance will only anger them, and anger this vast empire......"

When Tukhachevsky pessimistically predicted the future, Miroslavsky, who was silent, just sat there quietly, and after a long time, he sighed and then spoke.

"Miri, my friend, how could I not know all this? But what can we do now? ”

Miroslavsky asked rhetorically.

"Shall we get rid of this place now and flee back to Moscow? No, if that, not only me, but the Miroslavsky family, would also become a joke. The whole Russian joke. ”

Now Miroslavsky is in a dilemma, whether to hold on, or to run away, will make him and his family a joke, and the interests will be harmed.

"Perhaps, we have other options......"

Tukhachevsky looked at Miroslavsky and said.

"Other options?"

"Yes, General, war is not the only option!"

Two days later, Tukhachevsky, who was the personal envoy of the Governor of the East, came to Hami, and because of the disparity in status, they did not meet the emperor himself, but they still met Li Dingguo. No one knew what they were talking about, but on the third day after the secret meeting between the two, the conflict between China and Russia broke out.

But surprisingly, the place where the first shot was fired was not Turpan, but Yarkand - the Volga Cossacks guarding there were easily repelled by the Ming army, and hundreds of remnants of the Cossacks fled all the way north from Yarkand, and tens of thousands of Ming troops immediately launched a pursuit.

By the time Miroslavsky received news from Yarkand, the Ming army on the southern front had already threatened his rear, and at the same time, the Ming army in the Hami area began to attack Shengjing.

How can the Ming army surround us here!

As the most well-known general in Russia, in the face of the encirclement of nearly 200,000 Ming troops from the east and west, Miroslavsky did not panic, but immediately adjusted his deployment and began to retreat to the rear, and on the way to retreat, he repeatedly used the vast steppe to get rid of the encirclement of the Ming army. After nearly two months, it finally jumped out of the "encirclement" of the Ming army.

It's a miracle!

On August 2, 1683, when Miroslavsky led nearly 10,000 Russian troops to retreat to Omsk after a great deal of hardship, he was greeted by the local nobles who immediately congratulated him.

"Dear General Miroslavsky, in the past two months, the whole of Russia has been singing about your bravery, your heroic defense of Russia's interests, and your successful attempt to dismantle the Ming Kingdom......"

Indeed, for Moscow, and indeed for many Russia, Miroslavsky's "victory" was undoubtedly brilliant, and in the face of enemy forces dozens of times larger than himself, he not only did not lose, but repeatedly disintegrated the opponent's attempts with the help of flexible tactics and jumped out of their encirclement, which was clearly a victory, and even brought Miroslavsky's prestige to the highest point after the suppression of the Racine uprising.

However, in the face of congratulations, Miroslavsky, as the person concerned, couldn't laugh, although he successfully preserved his reputation and his guards, but he knew very well in his heart that if it weren't for the deliberate release of water by the Ming army, he would not have been able to escape at all, and the hundreds of thousands of Ming troops were not so much chasing as walking, and what was the price of walking? The Eastern Viceroyalty fell completely into the hands of the Ming Kingdom.

Tukhachevsky, who was the main contributor, asked when he saw the general staring at the Kazakh steppes in the distance.

"General, what should we do now?"

"Back to Moscow!"

Miroslavsky said softly.

"From now on, we will have to face another great power, God forbid, they are civilized people......"