Chapter 277: Western Siberia (14)

The two sides retreated and chased, and soon passed through the city gate, and all the soldiers lying on the way were defending the city. The soldiers guarding the city were all beaten away, and the city gate was naturally unguarded, Batur waved his hand, and two thousand of the five thousand soldiers quickly changed their horses and drove towards the city gate in four formations, as for the soldiers on the tower of the city gate, they went to join in the fun as early as the beginning of the fight, and they did not participate in such a good opportunity to fight, they thought they were all fools, even if they were beaten, they were happy.

After the 2,000 soldiers led by Batur entered the city, they immediately took control of the city gate, and then ran directly to the city government building, at this time, the city guard commander was the highest governor here, as long as the city building was captured and the city guard commander was killed, the city was truly occupied.

However, this time Batur miscalculated, the commander of the city defense of Tyumen is now not in the municipal building, but in the barracks in the north of the city, when the captain of Batur's guard and the guards beat the soldiers of the city to flee to the barracks, these soldiers actually fled to the large barracks in the north of the city, and the soldiers with fast legs have already mounted their horses to report. Therefore, when the captain of the guard saw the Tyumen barracks, the commander of the city defense had already appeared with heavily armed soldiers, and the guy was ready to suppress it by force, and the captain of the guard whistled, and the Ming soldiers immediately ran back, and it would be a fool to fight again, anyway, Batur's army had already entered the city. By this time, the three thousand soldiers behind the Ming army had also entered the city, and Batur immediately reorganized his ranks and headed for the Tyumen barracks.

The city defense commander of Tyumen has now completely understood that his soldiers have been fooled, and the Ming army's brigade has entered the city, but fortunately, he himself happens to be in the camp, there are still nearly 10,000 soldiers in the barracks, and there is still the ability to fight for control of the Ming army, and the Ming army is a sneak attack this time, and there will not be too many troops. The battle raged fiercely in the city of Tyumen, the Tyumen defenders were outnumbered and familiar, and the Ming army relied on excellent weapons and advanced firearms. However, Batur's subordinates are all cavalry and are not very good at foot combat, while the soldiers defending the city are infantry, which is relatively more advantageous, but the firearms of the Ming army are too powerful, and they dare not rush too fiercely, and the two sides are in a stalemate.

If the battle continued like this, Batur's five thousand soldiers would definitely not be able to capture Tyumen, especially at night, when the Ming army would be at an absolute disadvantage. Fortunately, the battle started in the morning, and it was summer, and the daytime was longer in the high latitudes, so the time used to fight was relatively long, and if it was in winter, it was impossible to march and fight, and the time to fight was short, which would definitely be unfavorable to the Ming army. Zhang Bingzhong and his subordinates were only half a day later than Batur, although the speed was a little slower, but it was also in a state of rapid march, and finally arrived in Tyumen City when it was almost dark.

When Zhang Bingzhong entered the city, the balance of victory immediately tilted in favor of the Ming army, although the march was very tired, but seeing that his troops were pressed and beaten by the enemy, Zhang Bingzhong's troops immediately entered the battle in turns, allowing Batur's subordinates to rest in turn. Compared with the Tyumen soldiers who also fought fiercely for a day, they were now exhausted, and when they found that the reinforcements of the Ming army had arrived, they had to retreat to the barracks for rectification, and the two sides slowly broke away from the battle, and the battlefield began to quiet down.

Under normal circumstances, night is the world of the defenders, after all, they are more familiar with the terrain, but when the Ming army has a numerical advantage, the defenders of Tyumen can no longer take advantage of this advantage, their soldiers are seriously blind at night, on the contrary, this situation does not exist for the Ming army. The only people who could pose a threat to the Ming army were the local population, who did not dare to participate in the battlefield during the day, the firearms of the Ming army were too powerful, and at night they began to harass the Ming army. After causing some losses, Zhang Bingzhong was furious and sent his guards out, and He Renlong and Shuo Lei also took their subordinates and began to fight back.

The counterattack began in the southern part of Tyumen, in groups of a dozen soldiers, crossing each other to cover each other, and began to clear the local population along the streets and alleys. Under the light of the torches, anyone who dares to resist will be killed immediately, and the rest of the people, no matter who they are, will be driven out of the house and gathered in the huge central square, where they can bring quilts and other things, but they are never allowed to carry any dangerous knives and crossbows, as for whether they will freeze, it is not a matter of concern to the Ming army, it is a terrible war period that they encountered, as long as such a thing does not die, it is a blessing.

In this area, the night is short, that is, three hours of effort, the sun emerges from the northeast direction, the Ming army, which has rested for only three hours, immediately began to have breakfast, and the residents who rushed to the square did not care, let them disband themselves, whoever wants to go there will go, as a result, they did not know their own home, the Ming army is too terrible, they rushed to the Tyumen military camp in one go.

After breakfast, the Ming army began to attack the barracks as a whole team, but unexpectedly there were no soldiers in sight, the barracks were full of residents who had stayed, and the soldiers defending the city had already fled at night when the residents harassed the Ming soldiers, and even a large number of weapons and ammunition in the barracks were not taken away, but only the food was emptied.

In order not to leave a bad image of slaughtering the city, Zhang Bingzhong ordered the indigenous people to stay, and the rest were given three days' worth of food each, so that they could leave on their own, and told them that this was already the place of the Ming Dynasty, and if they were seen again within three days, they would be killed on the spot. In fact, most of these people are homeless, and a small part are the families of soldiers, they are used to such a wandering life, look at the fierce Ming army, only hurry up and leave this dangerous place.

The practice of the Ming army is in accordance with Zhu Youxiao's intentions, as long as they occupy a place, they will immediately drive away the immigrants who migrated from Europe, leaving only the original inhabitants there, in fact, these people are very easy to distinguish, the people who have immigrated are not too long, and the local indigenous people are still very few, they all have obvious European characteristics, and the local indigenous people are the standard race, that is, the language can be similar to Batur and their tribe, and a little further east and Shuolei their tribal language is the same, as long as these two people are distinguished by soldiers, it can be easily judged.

The Europeans who emigrated were expelled, and as long as the remaining indigenous people gave them the same treatment as ordinary residents of the Ming Dynasty, gave them horses, cattle and sheep, living supplies, and the basic common language, these people would quickly integrate into the Ming Dynasty. In this cold and miserable place, the residents of the Ming Dynasty in the Central Plains are reluctant to immigrate here, but if there is not enough population to fill here, it may be lost after a long time, which is a lesson in history.

Since the Qin and Han dynasties, the northern nomads who have been threatening the Central Plains have been constantly staging the southward process until the fall of the Ming Dynasty, but they have been assimilated by the Han people one by one, but they still continue to invade the south, which is naturally yearning for the warm climate and fertile land in the south. However, many rich mineral resources discovered in later generations are in these bitter cold places in the north, and Russia in later generations can still stand on top of the world by virtue of the vast Siberian land, which has gone through the twists and turns of war, because there are infinitely rich resources.

Since the founding of Mao Taizu, the population has been continuously enriched in the border areas, which has made the original local population ratio change dramatically, so that there is a solid border defense. It is unlikely that Zhu Youxiao will force too many people to immigrate to this area, so it will be possible to solve the population problem by integrating the original inhabitants here into the tribes of Batur and Shuolei to form new residents, and then the next thing is to build a railway that will completely connect the whole of Siberia, just like the practice of Tsarist Russia, which will closely link the Siberian region with other places, and become an inseparable situation both economically and otherwise.

In the future, there will definitely be a certain number of troops stationed in these places, but the main force will be dominated by the tribes of Batur and Shuolei, after all, in the history of thousands of years, their tribes have been living here, and they are more able to adapt to the environment here, coupled with continuous production progress, their living conditions will definitely be continuously improved. Although the climate of this generation is very cold, nature still provides human beings with very rich living resources, they can live freely, when advanced living materials are exchanged here, they will enjoy a more comfortable life, just like lighters can make it more convenient for them to make fire, greenhouses can make them better vegetables.