Chapter 55 The Tsar Sends a Special Envoy The First Meeting between China and Russia

Jiang Jian wanted to completely annihilate the Russians, but the battlefield range was dozens of miles, and it was impossible to want a single remaining Russian to be completely annihilated, and a small number of cavalry still escaped through the net.

The cavalrymen who had slipped through the net knew that they had to report the horrific scene to His Majesty the Tsar as soon as possible, and they were really galloping on their horses, but the heavy snow hindered their speed, and a few days later these stubborn cavalrymen ran back to Moscow to report the news to the Tsar.

Hearing the bad news that nearly 30,000 people were completely annihilated by the Ming army, the tsar almost fainted. The tsar never dreamed that this little Baron Martsov would dare to disobey his own orders so boldly and organize an army to attack the Ming army without authorization. This stupid fellow, don't you want to think that if the Ming army does not have enough troops and means, it will advance the army to this side of the Ural Mountains. If you want to attack, how can you send such an army over? The Tsar regretted very much that he had sent such a guy to the Urals, because by his departure, he had folded all the forces of the entire Eastern Defense Line into it.

Enraged, the Alex Czar smashed two of his beloved crystal cups. But as soon as he calmed down, the Tsar had to face the grim situation of how to deal with the matter.

Seeing that the Tsar had calmed down a little, Count Petrov said: "Your Majesty the Tsar! We now have to face threats from two directions. To the south is the old enemy Ottoman Empire, which has set its foot on our doorstep, and to the east is from the east, of which we know very little about the Ming army. We must resolve to move away from a two-front situation. The Ottoman Turks, having already reached Ukraine, must not be distracted. In fact, even if we go all out to deal with the Ottoman Empire, it will be very difficult, and if we divide our troops to the Ural Mountains, the situation will be even worse! ”

Tsar Alex reclined in his chair, rolled his eyelids and said: "Count Petrov, you don't need to say this, we all know this, tell me what you think!" ”

"Ahem!" Count Petrov covered his mouth and coughed lightly, "Your Majesty the Tsar! We have no hatred with the Ming Dynasty in the Far East, is it not those barbaric Cossacks who went to the Far East to offend the Ming Dynasty, they are coming for revenge. I think those Ming Dynasty people in the Far East must have thought that the Ural Mountains and the Far East were their sphere of influence, and we touched their interests, so that the Ming Dynasty, which had no time to take care of this bitter cold land, also focused its attention here! ”

A marquis next to him was very dissatisfied with Count Petrov's verbosity, "Count Petrov, can you talk less nonsense?" Tell me what you mean, right? ”

"Count Petrov, just say what you mean!" Tsar Alex could not stand the verbosity of Count Petrov either.

"In this case, we can send an envoy to talk to the Ming Dynasty people and hear what they mean? If possible, we should make a little concession, and it is better to hold the line of defense on the Ural side. When we are done dealing with the Ottoman Empire, we will go back to dealing with these Eastern barbarians. Your Majesty, that's my opinion! After Count Petrov finished speaking, he stroked his chest and saluted.

"Hmmm! Do the other adults still disagree? Czar Alex asked, sitting upright for a moment, glancing at his ministers.

"No more!"

"Count Petrov's opinion is quite right! We can't fight on two fronts! ”

In fact, the ministers were frightened by the total annihilation of the Ming army so easily by 30,000 people. Many of them have fought and know what the concept of tens of thousands of cavalry is, and if they want to destroy so many cavalry on the battlefield, it is necessary to kill a river of blood, and both sides will pay a lot of price. However, according to the soldiers who escaped, they were slaughtered like prey, and they did not even have the power to fight back. It's horrible. They all hoped to make peace with the Ming army, and it was better not to fight again. In fact, Tsar Alex agreed with this opinion, not wanting to fight on two fronts, and also because he was afraid that the opponent did not understand and was defeated so miserably.

After some research, Tsar Alex decided to send Count Petrov to negotiate with the Ming army on behalf of the Tsar.

Since this idea was proposed by Count Petrov, he was also willing to go and negotiate with the Ming army. He knew that both sides were big countries, and there would be no danger in going to the talks, and this was also an opportunity to make meritorious contributions.

Due to the snow in the direction of the Ural Mountains, the carriage could not go, and Count Petrov had to go with a few horses and ploughs. His guards rode and followed.

Jiang Zhu They won a battle a year ago, and they were naturally very happy. The happiest thing is that the soldiers' horse meat can be eaten casually, and many horse meat that can't be eaten have to be frozen and pickled. The only thing that made Jiang Pai feel a little depressed was that it was too cold here to do anything, and the more than 10,000 captives still had to eat a lot of food to survive. Fortunately, there are a lot of seized food and other supplies, so you don't have to worry about starving them.

The battle went too smoothly, Jiang Pai was worried that the soldiers were easy to relax too much, as a veteran, he knew the truth that the arrogant soldiers would be defeated.

After Jiang Ji finished the battle, he still sent the sentries far away, but fortunately, the regiment equipped with ski equipment had the best equipment to keep out the cold, and each soldier had eiderdown sleeping bags, eiderdown vests, and eiderdown pants. They went out and lay in ambush in the snow, and the freeze did not break.

Jiang Jian didn't forget that when the wind was not too strong and the weather was good, he sent out planes to patrol the sky. This makes the ginger inlay feel particularly good. Now it's really heaven and earth, it's all up to you.

The plane sent from the kiln gang, after several transitions, sent a film projectionist with projection equipment, as well as color film film. This made Jiang Ji happy. However, the projectionist could not get off the plane when he arrived at the Ural Mountains. I was helped into the camp by everyone, and I rested for two days before I could get up and walk.

This film projectionist was the most popular among the officers and soldiers in the entire Ural Mountains, and wherever he went, he showed movies to everyone, and every unit gave him the best things to eat. In accordance with the requirements of the officers and men, the projectionists also showed this color film to everyone over and over again.

Soon, the joy of this color film outweighed the joy of just winning a battle. Because it is no longer a great thing for the Yaogang army to win the battle. The fact that these officers and men were able to see the best color films sent by the kiln gang from such a distance greatly boosted the morale of the officers and men. Jiang Jian also has to admire the leaders of Yaogang. At the beginning, Jiang Pai felt that it was a bit of a fuss to send a movie here, but seeing the reactions of the officers and soldiers, Jiang Pai was really convinced, and he sincerely felt that spiritual food is also a weapon!

The officers and men of the entire Ural Mountains region were well fed, had a lot of horse meat, and had a color movie, so the officers and men were very happy to have a good year. When the Mongols saw that the battle was over, they also moved their yurts to Jiang Pai and stationed them outside their camp, and Jiang Pai asked the officers and soldiers to send them some salt, sugar, tea, food and other things for the winter. The Mongols also gave some of their own horse ** wine to Jiang Jiao. The relationship between the military and the people soon became like a family.

Jiang Jianxin said: You Mongolians are really, you were so rampant at the beginning, and now you know, you can't go to other people's territory! However, Jiang Jian understands better that if you want to gain a foothold here, you must have people. With more than 10,000 Mongolians in the western part of the Ural Mountains and such a good steppe as we protecting them, it will not take a few years to develop very quickly. At that time, it was also a formidable force.

When Count Petrov came to the camp, the camp was not yet over the end of the year. The smell of wine and meat wafted through the camp, and Count Petrov, who had not eaten decently on the road, came to the camp under the escort of the soldiers of the kiln hill, and kept inhaling the tempting fragrance with his nose.

They were stopped early by the sentries of the Kiln Gang and their weapons were collected before they were brought into the Kiln Gang camp.

Count Petrov and Jiang Zhu were more troublesome because they did not translate directly, so they had to translate through Mongolian.

When Jiang Jian heard that the Russian tsar had sent an earl to negotiate, he was overjoyed and said, "Fuck! It's better to be convinced, so that they can come and negotiate honestly! ”

In any case, Jiang Pai also had to receive this earl politely, and Jiang Pai had also heard that these counts and other nobles were very particular, but this was a camp that had to be made up no matter how particular it was.

In the hall made of logs, electricity from the outside diesel generator is used, and fluorescent lamps illuminate the hall very brightly.

As soon as Count Petrov entered the hall, Jiang Zhu greeted him very politely, "Welcome Count to our camp!" I'm the Supreme Commander here! ”

The translator was translated into Mongolian, and the translator brought by Count Petrov was translated into Russian for Count Petrov.

After hearing this, Count Petrov's eyes adjusted to the light, and he put his hand on his chest and bowed his head and said, "Your Excellency, the misunderstanding that has just occurred between our two countries is a very regrettable thing. I am on the orders of His Majesty the Tsar, and I have come to communicate with the general. ”

"Let's sit down and talk!" Jiang asked Count Petrov and the others to sit down.

The soldiers immediately served fragrant tea.

Count Petrov and the others immediately turned their gaze from the bright daylight to the tea. In Russia, only nobles can enjoy tea, and it is all fermented tea, and the ginger inlaid him is the best Longjing given to him by Zhang Zhimu.

Count Petrov They had never seen such a good tea, and the count couldn't help but ask: "General, is this also the tea of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

"Yes! It's West Lake Longjing tea! This is the best tea! Jiang Ji replied with a smile.

"Oh! It's not the same as the tea we drink in Russia! Said Count Petrov.

"How about you please taste this tea, Lord Earl?" Jiang Ji said.

Count Petrov elegantly took the teacup and sniffed it, took a sip gently, and suddenly felt a fragrance permeating the mouth, which made people feel refreshed, "Oops! This is the best tea I've ever had! Why don't we Russian businessmen buy some of this tea? ”

"Huh! This kind of tea is not easy to buy in our Ming Dynasty. It takes a lot of time for the tea to reach your merchants, and it takes a lot for your merchants to transport the tea back to Moscow, and good tea can easily spoil on the way. That's why it's hard for you guys to get this tea! Jiang Ji explained.

Jiang Jian chatted with Count Petrov for a while, and the atmosphere was very good. Count Petrov knew it was time to get down to business, "Your Majesty, let me ask you, why did you come to our Ural Mountains when you are not in your far east?" ”

"You tsars have misunderstood, this is originally our territory, shouldn't we have come here? It's you, send those demonic Cossacks to our Far East to burn, kill, loot, and eat human flesh. We're going to ask you why? ”

"No, no, this side of the Ural Mountains has always been our territory, this is your misunderstanding!" Count Petrov is unambiguous.

"This was originally the territory of the Yuan Dynasty, our Ming Dynasty overthrew the Yuan Dynasty, so we naturally inherited the land of the Yuan Dynasty. This time we were going to deal with the barbarian Cossacks, and at the same time we were going to start administering our lands. Originally, we had some disagreements and could have resolved them through negotiation, but if you send troops to attack us without distinguishing your innocence, we will naturally fight back. So the responsibility for what has just happened lies with you, not the war we started! Jiang Jian is also arguing on the basis of reason.

"No, no, General, you're not right! If, according to what you said, our Russia is also a vassal state of the Yuan Dynasty, will our Russia also belong to you? ”

"Your Russia is a vassal state of the Yuan Dynasty, but at that time, the scope of the vassal state did not include the Ural Mountain region, which you seized when we didn't care about it! We just take back our territory! ”

"It seems that we can't talk about the territory!" Count Petrov said, "Still, we hope for a peaceful settlement of the matter!" Some time ago, there was a misunderstanding, which was caused by the stupid Baron Martsov, who acted without permission against the tsar's orders. However, I also understand that it is difficult for a military man not to act when he sees a foreign army on the soil of his country. ”

"However, please also ask the Count to go back and tell His Majesty the Tsar that we will not encroach on other people's territory, but the determination of our army to defend their territory is unshakable." Jiang Pai said, "Also, since the lord said that the misunderstanding that just happened happened because the baron made the decision without authorization, isn't it true that the dead man will be responsible for our losses?" ”

Baron Martzov realized that there was a loophole in his words, and since he admitted that it was his own people who acted without permission to cause the misunderstanding, they naturally demanded compensation for the loss. However, Count Petrov reacted quickly, "I see the General, let's solve this matter together with the problem in front of us!" You can tell me what your demands are, and I'll go back and tell your majesty the Tsar. What we Tsars mean is that I, in order to avoid unpleasantness, ask you to retreat to the east of the Urals, and we will absolutely not allow anyone to step on the east of the Urals. ”

"We will not give up any of our territory," Mr. Jiang said, "but we are willing to make some concessions for the sake of long-term peace." We looked: From here, more than 130 kilometers west of the Ural Mountains, there is a river that flows from north to south from the Ural Mountains to the south, and flows into the Caspian Sea not far from the west of the Ural River. Although the flow of the river is not very large, it can be used as a good landmark, and we can make some sacrifices to use the river centerline as the boundary. Draw an extension line in the direction of the river to the north to the White Sea (Arctic Ocean). That's our bottom line. ”

Count Petrov's face changed when he heard this, "No, no, absolutely not. We, His Majesty the Tsar, will never give up the Ural Mountains and the vast plains to the west, you have gone too far! ”

Jiang Yan took a sip of tea from the teacup, put it down, and said, "You don't have the right to say whether this thing will work or not, you can only bring our request back!" ”

"We Russians will not agree, and the places I occupy will never be handed over again." Count Petrov slapped the table excitedly.

Jiang Yan still smiled and said: "In that case, we will enter Moscow and force your tsars to agree!" ”

Baron Malzov stood up angrily, "Don't forget, our Russian army is invincible. We'll make our enemies crawl at our feet! ”

Jiang Jian listened to the translator: "Said with a smile, we have understood!" After speaking, he took out a few pieces of snow-white paper full of Chinese and Mongolian and handed them to Baron Marzov, "This is the bottom line for us to settle this matter peacefully, you can bring it to His Majesty the Tsar!" In addition, our Majesty Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty greets His Majesty the Tsar! ”

Count Petrov knew that Jiang had ordered the expulsion, but he knew that he would not be able to go back like this. If he goes back like this, he will be laughed off by those who are jealous of him, and besides, he has another mission, which is to bring back as many captured Russian officers as possible.

Thinking of this, Count Petrov had to bow his arrogant head, "Your Excellency, I have one more request, please allow me to meet our captured officers!" ”

Seeing that Count Petrov's attitude had changed a little, Jiang Jian immediately said: "Everything is easy to say!" ”

Jiang Jian immediately arranged for someone to lead Count Petrov to see the prisoner of war camp. On the way, Count Petrov asked the officer who led the way, "How many of our officers and men have you captured!" ”

"More than 5,000 people! Some were killed, and some escaped! "As for the number of prisoners, Jiang Jian is not ready to tell Count Petrov, because he needs a lot of labor. Once the negotiations are over, the other side asks for the release of the prisoners, and it is not easy to tell the truth.

Count Petrov said: "I just want to see our officers!" ”

The kiln officer said: "It's the same if they are captured, they are not officers, they are all prisoners!" ”

"What? You're keeping our officers and soldiers together? "Count Petrov was agitated again.

"Yes! They're all the same! The kiln officer replied crisply.

Count Petrov couldn't help it, but fortunately he saw that every hundred of the captives were kept in a wooden fence, and the wooden houses inside were well heated and not cold. The soldiers also said that they were not hungry to eat!

Count Petrov originally thought that it would be better to bring back a couple of officers. But seeing Ming Jun's attitude, he knew that this matter was difficult.

When Count Petrov saw Jiang Jiande again, he thanked Jiang Jiande for his kindness to their captured soldiers. Seeing that Count Petrov was already able to speak, Jiang Jian politely kept him for one night, and invited him to dinner in the evening.

For dinner, Count Petrov didn't use chopsticks, and used silver knives and forks that he had brought. However, he still likes the ginger and their wine and food.

During the banquet, the atmosphere was good, and Count Petrov said with the strength of wine: "General, I don't think we really should fight, but our tsar really can't accept the conditions you put forward. If we don't get it right, we'll see each other again! ”

Jiang Pai also said: "Actually, I can't help it, there are many people in our court who are not satisfied with such requests!" They asked us to go straight to Moscow. You also know, we have hundreds of thousands of people now, and we have such good weapons, it is not a problem to break into Moscow. But I didn't want to see so many people die again, so I fought for this condition. After I finished talking about this condition today, I was really angry to see your attitude. At that time, I thought, if you don't agree, it's better, I'll take someone into Moscow at the beginning of spring next year! ”

"No, no, we can't be at war anymore, we have to be friends! Our enemy is the Ottoman Empire, not you! "As soon as Count Petrov drank the wine, he said what he shouldn't have said.

After the dinner, Jiang invited Count Petrov to watch a movie, which gave Count Petrov a lot of knowledge. He didn't expect that a piece of white cloth in front of him could appear so vividly. Although they can't understand a word about what is said in the movie, it does not affect them to watch the movie according to their own imagination.

The only thing that annoys Jiang is that he can't understand what movies and lights are all about.

The next day, when Count Petrov returned, Jiang Ji gave him two boxes of Longjing tea and two flashlights, and told him that half of them were for the Tsar.

On the way back, Count Petrov, who was dazed, slowly cleared his mind, and he knew that it was really not possible to go back and tell the Tsar truthfully. Besides, those colleagues are going to laugh to death too.

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New progress in "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty": the Battle of Yashan, the defeat of the Yuan army, the counterattack of the Song army, and the landing in Fuzhou.