Chapter 994: Burning in flames
Their deeds spread to all over the country, two months finally arrived not far from the city of Bletzk, just arrived, and stabilized the Qing army was surprised, hurriedly dispatched troops, sent soldiers and horses to quell the rebellion, they thought that these rebels must not know how to fight, so they sent 30,000 Goguryeo soldiers and horses, 30,000 remnants of various ethnic groups soldiers and horses, 10,000 Han banners, Han army banner soldiers and horses, 2,000 Manchu soldiers and horses, with 30,000 people to quell the rebellion.
Along the way, the momentum was like a bamboo, those small uprisings, a few days of effort was wiped out, after the extermination, the rebel army slaughtered all the nearby settlements of the rebel people and servant army, and then left hundreds of men and thousands of people to protect the road and territory, continue to advance, all the way, not enough for them to finally go astray, because the rebellion in Meberia is not a force, but in full bloom, their counter-insurgency army went to the Upper Middle Siberia of Middle Siberia, attacked along the Yenisei River, did not go to the city of Omuirminsk, gave Guo Qilin, Gu Yanwu's timing for their development.
After receiving the report, Kangxi sent a Manchu general to lead another 60,000 soldiers and horses to set off, and gathered some servants and civilians along the way to be people's husbands, transporting supplies and grain and grass, but this rebel army developed in Upper Central Siberia again, because there were too many, and this road of soldiers and horses kept rushing to the sea.
Soon Kangxi sent the 13th Route Counterinsurgency Army, and finally the last Route Counterinsurgency Army of 200,000 soldiers and horses, and 300,000 people arrived in the city of Omuir Minsk.
Under the city of Chen on both sides, just like the Russian Expeditionary Force and the Great Qing State at that time, winter came.
How could there be a war on such a day, so I could only retreat fifty miles and look for a place to spend the winter.
And the rebels have no way to attack, and they know that if they can't survive the winter, they will have nothing.
So the two sides called off fighting, as was the case all over Central Siberia.
The Qing State is also cleaning up the situation, settling the people in some areas where there is no rebellion, and sending additional troops and horses to garrison and transport supplies to various places, hoping to survive this winter.
Such a rebellion caused the Qing to lose 100,000 Manchus, 1 million Han, 3 million Goguryeo and other ethnic groups, the loss of materials was huge, such a battle made most of the Manchu materials destroyed or cheapened the rebels, and at the same time the counterinsurgency also consumed a lot of materials, and at the same time occupied the soldiers and horses that had just been assembled to reinforce the front line.
Fortunately, Western Siberia already borders Mongolia and Central Asia occupied by the Chinese Empire, and the winter is better than that of Siberia to the east, and the road transportation is okay, so the supply of materials and troops can only beg the Chinese Empire, so there is a letter to the Chinese Empire.
In fact, these things had been sent back to Yanjing by the Chinese Imperial Observers stationed in Yunnan Prefecture a few months ago, and they were sent to Yunnan Prefecture by 800 miles of expedited through Yanjing's post station.
After Zhang Qiang knew, he returned to Yanjing from Yunnan Prefecture for more than half a month, and while paying attention to the development of the situation in the Great Qing Kingdom, he delivered materials to the front line of the Great Qing Kingdom, and at the same time issued an emergency notice to let the soldiers and horses stationed in Heilongjiang withdraw to Heilongjiang, and the materials and population sent to East Siberia were temporarily stopped, and some farther areas and the people bordering Middle Siberia were also withdrawn from East Siberia, and now they have basically arrived in Heilongjiang and arranged for them to be stationed.
In this way, there were only two million soldiers and horses stationed in Dongberia, one to cope with the winter in East Siberia, and the other to fear that the rebellion in Middle Siberia would affect East Siberia.
At the same time, think about how to prevent these things in the future, after all, Siberia is thousands of miles away, and the climate is harsh, once a rebellion like the Qing Dynasty occurs, it is easy for rebels to breed, and it is not easy to control.
Now Zhang Qiang does not know whether the remaining rebellions of the Great Qing State can block the attack of the Russians and the Western coalition forces in the coming year or the year after, and the intelligence sent to the West is not optimistic.
The Russians gathered eight million serfs, one million regular soldiers, and other Western coalition forces gathered three million troops, although these were some mercenaries, some vagabonds who wanted to get rich, and merchants who exceeded the soldiers and horses, if these forces attacked the weakened Qing State, then it would be impossible to resist with the strength of the Great Qing State, and maybe Middle Siberia would be lost again, so what would the Qing Congress do?
Rebel, or retreat to Eastern Siberia again, and work for the Chinese Empire again?
Anyone's patience has a bottom line, not to mention the patience of a country, when the time comes, it can't beat the Russian Empire, and the Qing State rushes into Eastern Siberia, even Mongolia and Northeast China, then it will bring irreparable losses to the Chinese Empire.
Zhang Qiang told everyone this question, and the entire cabinet thought that this was very likely to become a reality, and many people proposed to withdraw most of the people of Dongberia, leaving a few hundred thousand people, and at the same time send more troops and horses where to go, and evacuate the overcrowded people and personnel of Heilongjiang, Vladivostok, and Chita, and move to other places, and wait until the threat of the Qing State and the Russians was completely resolved.
Zhang Qiang adopted all the opinions and immediately ordered the implementation of the order, first evacuating the engineers and businessmen who were building the road, the observers and soldiers stationed there, sending more intelligence personnel of the Military Intelligence Department to station, and establishing a number of liaison stations.
So about 6 million people hurriedly withdrew from East Siberia and Central Siberia, and before the winter came, there were still 500,000 people left in East Siberia, 100,000 soldiers and horses, and the population of Heilongjiang and Vladivostok also migrated to Inner Mongolia and the Western Regions and Central Asia, and the main construction direction was changed to Central Asia and the Western Regions, Tibet, Xinjiang and other places.
Doing this all winter.
The population of Heilongjiang and other places dropped from 41 million at its peak to 19 million, and among them, there were also garrison brigades that had been assembled and distributed on the spot, stationed in Vladivostok, Chita, Lake Belga and other places, with a total of 2 million soldiers and horses, to guard against the Qing State and the rebels of the Great Qing State.
Inner Mongolia and other places also display nearly 1 million garrison brigade soldiers and 300,000 field army soldiers, ready to support front-line operations at any time.
From Vladivostok, Lake Berga to Mongolia, to Central Asia, the Western Regions and other places, a total of 10,000 large and small artillery pieces, 1 million cavalry soldiers and horses, ready to deal with the counterattack of the Qing Dynasty, or the Russians to fight.
The surplus population moved to Australia and other places to open up wasteland.
And the Great Qing Kingdom was also preparing to deal with emergencies, Kangxi suddenly remembered that there were still some people who were not used, the captured Russians and Western coalition prisoners, these people had hundreds of thousands of people, and the surplus was either dead, or as a way to build roads, the personnel who transported materials were distributed seven or eight thousand kilometers from the front line to Central Siberia.
Use the existing materials to organize the captive soldiers, and lead the army with the Han army flag, full of supervision, prepare to attack the rebels in the coming year, quell the rebellion, and give the prisoners the treatment that after the counterinsurgency in the coming year, the people with the greatest merit will be put back, and the people with less merit will receive them as a member of the servant army of the Qing Army.
In order to survive, these captives can only promise the Great Qing Kingdom, what can they do if they don't agree, winter is coming, there is no food, no war horses, they can't even escape.
(End of chapter)