Zhou Lang maintained the maximum restraint against the Russians, and whether he would intervene in the war of China's reunification was Zhou Lang's decision-making criterion for whether to join the Napoleonic War.

He didn't expect that the Russians would be so obsessed with the pressure of Napoleon on the one hand, and on the other hand, they would be so persistent in the face of territory, and when they saw an opportunity, they immediately sent troops to rob it, showing such greed.

Zhou Lang has always asked the Russians to withdraw their troops, but the Russian consul made various excuses, first saying that he was willing to help China destroy the Qing Dynasty, and when China said that it did not need it, they moved out of the Manchu herdsmen who always secretly hid the Kazakhs, and they wanted to retaliate.

In short, the Russian army must enter the territory of the Manchus, whether China agrees or not.

The attitude of the Russians made Zhou Lang make up his mind.

Since there is going to be a war with Russia, then the Manchus can be spared.

He has no personal enmity with Jiaqing, and he attacked Jiaqing because Zhou Lang felt that Xinjiang was China. The owners of that land changed one stubble after another, the Huns, the Dayue people, the Uighurs, the Mongols, and the Han people. The Han people entered here after the establishment of the capital in the Western Han Dynasty, and if they wanted to claim sovereignty here, the Han people were also the most qualified. At least more qualified than the Central Asian peoples who migrated in later.

So Zhou Lang can talk to Jiaqing, as long as he is willing to surrender, allow him to be a rich man, use him as a cover, and stabilize the production of Eight Banners here as soon as possible, at least the food will be solved, and even their arsenal can provide a considerable part of gunpowder.

Therefore, Zhou Lang immediately ordered the suspension of military operations and negotiated with Jiaqing.

Jiaqing refused to surrender.

But he made a request, he could withdraw from the border wall and go to the old Kokand land, and the two sides would demarcate their borders and not invade each other.

If Wang Fuqian and other ministers were to handle foreign affairs, they would definitely not agree, because they felt that to fight the Manchu Qing was to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots, and they were threatened if they were emperors in China.

But Zhou Lang felt that the Manchus still had a fart threat, could they still kill them from Central Asia?

The Industrial Revolution has begun, and you are still worried about nomadic invasion?

This is not the time when Zhu Yuanzhang destroyed the Northern Yuan Dynasty, not the time when Zhu Di went on a northern expedition to Mongolia, this is modern society.

Jiaqing's suggestion made Zhou Lang particularly tempted, which meant that Jiaqing didn't want to stay in the Ili area at all, and Zhou Lang wanted land.

So he basically agreed with Jiaqing's opinion and sent Huang Qiuwu to negotiate with Jiaqing.

The negotiations were difficult, and Jiaqing made a lot of demands, and some of them were unacceptable.

He offered to take the bannermen, saying that these people were not Han people and should not be under Chinese rule.

Zhou Lang wants the land here, but everyone is gone, what's the use of asking for land. Moreover, most of the so-called banner people in Jiaqing are Han people who moved from the mainland, and the land was reclaimed by them, and now they have become banner people? Where there is so easy.

In the end, Jiaqing proposed that at least let the bannermen who were willing to follow him to Kokand, otherwise he would rather die in battle. Or the surrender of the whole country to Russia.

Zhou Lang also knew that at this time, the Russians were advancing very quickly in the Ili River Valley, and they were also lobbying Jiaqing, in case Jiaqing really surrendered to Russia, it would be troublesome.

Zhou Lang hoped that Jiaqing would surrender, hoping to use the foundation developed by Jiaqing to help him fight to the death with Russia, but if he fell to Russia, it would become Russia using these resources to confront China. In this backward region of Central Asia, whoever gets the industrial and agricultural foundation built by Jiaqing will have a huge advantage.

As the Russian army finally appeared on the other side of Ili City, Zhou Lang agreed to Jiaqing's request. However, he insisted that Jiaqing should not cooperate with Russia, and demanded that he support China in expelling Russia.

In the long-term contact with Russia, probably Jiaqing also felt that this foreign country was not very reliable, and the credibility of the Russians was never reassuring, but what Zhou Lang promised to do, he could generally do it.

Jiaqing agreed.

Then they still negotiated with Russia, telling them that they had signed a treaty with the Manchus, ending the state of war, the Manchus ceded Ili, and now the Russian army was deep in the Chinese transit, and demanded that the Russian army retreat immediately.

The Russians were not convinced, and by this time they had deployed 30,000 troops here and controlled the largest agricultural area of the Manchu Qing in the Ili River valley.

With the cooperation of Jiaqing, the Chinese army marched into the city of Ili and quickly seized the strategic points controlled by the surrounding Qing army, preparing for the battle with the Russian army.

Zhou Lang officially declared war on Russia through the Imperial Academy!

After the outbreak of the war, the Chinese army launched an attack on the Russian army, but the Russian army did not resist stubbornly, and after a little contact, it retreated.

It turned out that the Russians came to take advantage of the fire to rob, and if there is a benefit, they will take it, and if there is no benefit, forget it.

They didn't really want to go to war with China, so the Chinese government turned around and chose to attack them, and they retreated.

The Russian consul immediately asked to see Zhou Lang, saying that what had happened between the two sides was a misunderstanding, and that the Russian army could withdraw from the territory and recognize the treaty signed between the Manchus and China.

At this time, it was the autumn of the thirteenth year of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

This battle to destroy the Qing Dynasty began in the spring of the twelfth year of the Great Zhou Dynasty and lasted for more than half a year.

Napoleon's army had already entered Russia, and the Russians would only cause trouble elsewhere if they were crazy, but it was still possible to loot while the fire was on fire.

So when the Chinese really declared war, they immediately retreated, anyway, Russia always believed that the two countries were too far apart and the possibility of war was very small.

But is this war really going to end like this?

Zhou Lang urgently consulted with the officers.

The words of the military naturally tend to be war-oriented.

But how?

After several years of various explorations, the road to Russia has been figured out, the western front through Mongolia does not have the ability to attack on a large scale, and now that the Manchus have surrendered, there is one more base, which can attack Russia through the Central Asian steppe. The other route is the Siberian route.

Later generations had a huge speculation as to why China did not annex Siberia, which seemed to be close at hand, but instead the Russians occupied it all the way from the west.

If they continue to look at the map carefully, they will find that there is a waterway connection from Russia all the way to the Pacific Ocean, and from China to Siberia in the north, they have to cross the Gobi Desert.

The vast rivers of Siberia, as well as their tributaries, formed an intricate network of waterways, which made it easier for the Russians to pass through Siberia than for China. In the agricultural era, it was far less easy for the Chinese to cross the Gobi Desert to occupy Siberia than it was for the Russians to come in all the way east from Europe.

So the Russians occupied here.

According to the army's investigation, the Siberian waterway is the most capable of carrying the transportation and supply of the army, as long as it is well organized, it can support 100,000 troops to fight in Russia for a long time.

Now that Ili is the base, there is no shortage of food, and the arsenal is ready-made, and China can even continue to expand here, then there is a route to support 100,000 people to fight the next day, and the strength of 200,000 people can be as long as the Russians.

These 200,000 must be elite, and the auxiliary soldiers to assist them in battle must be at least 400,000, and the total strength will be as high as 600,000.

China can still bear this amount of troops.

And Zhou Lang felt that it was still not enough, Napoleon organized an army of 600,000 to attack Russia, but didn't he fail in the end.

Zhou Lang is ready to form a million people, and also show the Europeans what a real army is!

Either you don't have a war with Russia, or you will press all the national power stations and fight a national war with the Russians!