Chapter 981: The Prologue Begins

General Kutuzov, the general of the Russian Middle Route Army and the favorite general of His Majesty the Emperor, was very sad, winter was coming, the Eastern Route Army had been defeated, a million expatriates and adventurers, horse bandits, pioneers, and 500,000 regular soldiers and horses, only 200,000 people could come back, the rest were all dead, the whole army had lost morale, he had to arrange them in the rear, while building settlements, while urging those emigrant serfs to produce food, cut down trees, and transport some supplies.

The battle on his side stretches for thousands of miles, but the real points are two, Kiliansk is the top priority, only here is a place that is completely suitable for human winters, water and grass are abundant, and enough for large armies to gather and fight, and other places are either high mountains or large rivers, and some passes can only be defended by horse bandits and some adventurers.

His manpower is insufficient, and other Western countries and support only have troops and people, but there are no immigrants, and without immigrants, they can't solve the problem of grain, grass, materials, and millions of troops can not support it for a long time, and he hopes to end the war soon, so he launched several large-scale battles, but they were all blocked back by the Qing Dynasty.

Although it caused a lot of casualties to the Great Qing Kingdom, it was not the regular soldiers and horses of the Great Qing Kingdom, they were all some ordinary people and servant soldiers, and they couldn't afford to fight for attrition.

The Qing Dynasty had the soldiers and horses of the former Mongol Khanate, they conquered some Mongol Khanates, but they could not use them, they were not really hardworking, so they could not curb the harassment of those Mongol cavalry and tribes, those tribes were mobile barracks, where there was water and grass, where they could survive, by the way, they attacked their grain routes, material transportation channels, Russia in order to defend the 3,000-kilometer transportation channel, a large number of cavalry and Cossack cavalry of the original Mongol Khanate, although these are brave, But it is not possible to really eliminate and eliminate the harassment of the enemy.

"Your Excellency, Moscow has sent soldiers and horses from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, they have brought a million soldiers and horses, two million farmers, Your Majesty promised them to cede Eastern Siberia to them, Duke Banar has already arrived here with his people, what do you think of the arrangement?"

Kutuzov said: "How else to arrange, let them attack and advance to Eastern Siberia, and at the same time leave 300,000 soldiers and horses, 300,000 farmers here to help, and we are not afraid of consumption." ”

His two staff officers looked at each other, looked at each other and smiled, it was really best to let these Austro-Hungarian people fight the Japanese, after a winter, it is estimated that there will be no one left among these people, and the Japanese will at least lose a lot, so there will be no one in Dongberia, His Majesty the Emperor is really wise.

Originally, Russia, Sweden, Austria-Hungary, and Poland were actually enemies, but in order to make up for the consumption of their own nation, the Russians did not hesitate to borrow money, cut land, borrow the armies, people and people of other kingdoms, and even promised a lot of benefits.

In Europe they have very little land, and there are many grand dukes who compete with Russia for those lands, nominally Russian, but in fact those of the grand duchies, so even if the living conditions and living conditions in Siberia seem to be not very good, Russia must get it.

The consumption in the early stage was too great, and Russia had to ask for help from several other countries, so Austria-Hungary came to support with troops and people, of course, not in vain, the land east of the Lena River was theirs, and what was not defeated was Russia's.

The Austro-Hungarian soldiers and horses went to Dongberia to attack Japan, and the Russians had to fight against the Qing Dynasty, and there were many places where troops could be stationed on this battlefield, about 17 battlefields that could be used by hundreds of thousands of people, and there were three important battlefields, one around the city of Kiliansk, one in Bretzk, and the other in a bend in the lower reaches of the Yenisei River.

Both sides filled the ravines and forests with cavalry and scouts, and the rivers were rugged, and then sent civilians, prisoners, and men to dig trenches, build fortifications, transport supplies, and scout cavalry and small infiltrators to attack these places, and sometimes even launch a local campaign to destroy these people, so that the other side did not have enough manpower to build a defensive line.

Sent here to observe Qi Sansheng and Shu Wansi, Qi Sansheng is old, Shu Wansi is middle-aged, the two of them have more things than Merlin and Lu Bao, they have to supervise the transfer and handover of materials here, because the Chinese Empire aided the Great Qing State free of charge, let the Great Qing State fight Russia, occupy Siberia, the purpose of the Great Qing State is only to find a place in Siberia to establish a state, and the purpose of the Chinese Empire is to make all Siberia without Russians.

What the Great Qing Kingdom wants to think about now is how to resist the Russian attack, instead of focusing on two people, except for some official business, the two people are basically not treated as Merlin and Lu Bao, which also allows the two people to play freely.

The horse-drawn railway, which extends from the city of Nebuchu, transports a large number of supplies and soldiers and civilians every day, and does the work of widening roads and building railways every day.

Qi Sansheng didn't tell Daqing that these people would be residents here after they finished building the railway, and they would settle here.

The two men ran through every inch of the vicinity, but the main thing was to observe the battle between the Qing and the Russians, which was their main duty.

"In the early hours of this morning, the Russians launched an attack in the lower reaches of the Yenisei River, the number of people is about 200,000, this is the first time in these months that the Russians have launched a major war of this scale, the result of the war does not need to be guessed, the Qing Kingdom won, the Russians died 50,000 serfs, 10,000 regular soldiers, wounded and missing unknown, this is the closest to the truth we can get." Shu Wansi said.

"What about the loss of the Great Qing Kingdom?" Qi Sansheng asked.

"The Great Qing Kingdom knows it clearly, it is guarded by the indigenous servant army of Southeast Asia and the Japanese servant army together, and there are 3,000 Manchu soldiers in the rear to supervise the war, with a strength of about 110,000 troops, 10,000 dead and 50,000 wounded, generally speaking, it is not much, not too little, but the loss of the indigenous people in Southeast Asia this time is not small, and if it goes on like this, after this battle is fought, the indigenous people of Southeast Asia basically have no adult men, which means that on a certain basis, the population of another region has been wiped out.

This point has been since we attacked Southeast Asia 15 years ago and gradually implemented the policy, until in recent years, Southeast Asia has basically been sinicized, and the original population, whether it is the naturalized indigenous people of Han China, or the local indigenous people of Southeast Asia, is almost dead, and the small samples of population and ethnic groups scattered in the corners of the world are insignificant. ”

(End of chapter)