Throughout the winter of the 40th year of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Zhou's successful envoys, through the Manchu territory, had been communicating and coordinating with China, and he finally obtained the promise of the Chinese court.

So the Greek envoy took Zhou Chenggong's handwritten secret letter to Shiraz to meet Daoguang in person, and handed over the king's secret letter to Daoguang.

After Daoguang read MeSign, he was indeed not very satisfied with the land promised by China, but Zhou Chenggong's analysis and commitment made him quite tempted.

Zhou Chenggong promised that if the Ottoman Empire went to war against the Qing Dynasty, Greece would help the war without hesitation, and China would support the alliance between Greece and the Qing Dynasty, and Greece would be willing to sign a paper agreement with the Qing Dynasty, even if it was made public.

If it is only China's promise, Daoguang may not be moved, because this kind of verbal promise is often the most unreliable, but if Greece allies with the Qing Dynasty against the Ottomans, China's support will be much more guaranteed, after all, Zhou Chenggong is the son of the Chinese emperor, China can break its promise not to support the Qing Dynasty, but it is impossible to ignore this prince.

After the last defeat, Egypt seized the Ottoman Empire's Greater Syria (including Palestine, Lebanon, Israel, and other regions of the Middle East north of the Araper Peninsula), and the Manchus seized the Ottoman Empire's two river basins. After the Ottomans were hit so hard, they were even more urged to change the law (reform), the Ottoman Sultan strengthened its control over the European region, completely regained the power of the former governors, formed new troops stationed in Macedonia, Albania and other places, and the Ottoman government created an army responsible only to the Sultan.

Mahmoud died last year, and his son succeeded to power and then continued to implement reforms. The fiscal system was restructured on the French model, banks were established, and Ottoman banknotes were issued. The continued reform of the army, the abolition of the poll tax on non-Muslims, and the inclusion of non-Muslims in the army, greatly increased the Ottoman Empire's reserve resources, and according to military advisers, the Ottomans were able to arm an army of 2 million men.

In addition, in many fields such as law and education, the French model was followed for reform, and the result is unknown, but the European consultants hired by Daoguang were very recognizable, believing that after the reform, the Ottoman national strength would inevitably be greatly improved.

The current territory of the Ottomans, the most economically valuable, is the European part, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania, but the potential of those territories is also there, and the Ottomans are very satisfied to keep these places, and it is impossible to expand into Europe. Once the Ottomans became strong, it was imperative to expand southward, and the Ottoman religious circles had always been extremely hostile to the Qing Dynasty, and the religious forces had a special status in the Ottomans, and under their influence, the Ottomans were full of hatred towards the Manchus, even more than hatred for the Egyptians.

The Ottoman Empire was full of clamors for revenge against the Qing Dynasty, launching a holy war, and retaking the valley of the two rivers.

However, for the current Qing Dynasty, the Lianghe River Basin has become an important land that cannot be separated, and after several years of development, the grain production here has accounted for half of the total output of the Qing Dynasty, and it is still growing. Through population replacement, the Qing Dynasty moved a large number of the country's most elite population, the Han Eight Banners, to the Lianghe River Valley, and its control over this place was very firm. But the threat from the Ottoman Empire grew, and the Qing had to be on guard.

The new Ottoman sultan was young and vigorous, and as long as he stood firm, I am afraid that a major war was inevitable.

However, in the great war with the Ottomans, the Qing could not find allies for the time being. Egypt has been moving northward for several years, and it seems that it intends to restore the future of the Alaper Empire and re-govern the Arabo power in North Africa. Ali succeeded in getting the rulers and tribes of Arabo in Cyrenaica and elsewhere to recognize his caliphate, but he clashed with France in Tunisia. In the battle with France, Ali was supported by the British, but Ali's fear of the European powers forced him to focus all his energy on guarding against the French, and he became less and less concerned about the affairs of Syria, leaving it all to his eldest son Ibrahim.

Without Egypt's help, the Qing would have to fight the Ottoman army of two million on its own, which was quite a pressure.

Therefore, Daoguang attaches great importance to this promise made by Greece, and he does not ask the Greeks to sign an open agreement with him, but he hopes to have a secret alliance with Zhou Chenggong, and the two sides will make a bloody alliance and help each other.

Zhou Chenggong agreed to Daoguang's request, and when all this was done, the long winter in Kazakhstan had passed, and spring had returned to the vast inland steppe, and the battle between the British and Russian forces and China had begun again.

Daoguang seized the opportunity, undeclared war, and sent troops across the Caucasus Mountains.

The Russian consul protested angrily, but then panic ensued, and the Manchu invasion from the belly made the situation too passive.

Russia quickly mobilized 100,000 troops to strengthen the defense of the Caucasus Mountains, but unexpectedly, the Kalmyk soldiers in the Russian army suddenly rebelled, and it turned out that the Manchus had made full preparations early in the morning and attracted the nomadic Kalmyks on the other side of the Caspian Sea and in the lower Volga region.

The so-called Kalmyks are actually the Turgots who returned to Ili during the Qianlong period, and due to the rush of the period, many Turks were hindered by the Volga River and failed to return with Wobasi, so they stayed in the local area to continue their nomadic herding, and the Russians gave them a new name, Kalmyks!

Due to the return of the tribal leaders to China, the herdsmen who remained here, lacking organization and being heavily guarded by the Russians, were very unhappy these years, not only had to pay the tsarist government a very high tax for the herdsmen, but also had to constantly respond to the tsar's call to provide cavalry for the tsar's army.

Historically, it was the Tsar's inability to conscript Turghut soldiers to fight again and again that made Worbasi decide to return eastward, and it is conceivable who the Mongols would prefer to rule between Russia and the Manchus. One of the advantages of Daoguang over Qianlong is that the current elite under Daoguang's rule can be said to be the Turkut Mongols of the same origin as Kalmykia.

It was only a few decades since the end of the Qianlong era, and it was not enough to sever the ties between Kalmykia and Turgot, and the elders of the Kalmyks had even experienced the return to the East that year. They all speak the same language, they all believe in Lamaism, one was the ruling nation under the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the other was a Turgot prince in a high position, constantly marrying with the royal family, and the Manchus and Mongolians are now one nation; The Kalmyks were under the rule of Tsarist Russia and lived an oppressed life, and it is not difficult to decide what they would choose.

Through the religious leaders of the upper echelons of Kalmykia, Daoguang easily won the allegiance of the Kalmyks. And this time the Kalmyks were indeed cornered, and the situation was even more severe than that of the time when Wobasi returned to the East. Because of the war with China, the Russians transferred more than half of the Kalmyk youths, and this time the Qing Dynasty transferred the remaining half of the youths, and if this continues, the fresh blood of this nation will be drained.

Therefore, under the urgent contact, the Kalmyks decided to start an incident, and the pre-battle defection was only a part. Then they quickly armed themselves and cut off Russia's connection with the Caucasus from the lower reaches of the Volga River, allowing the main force of the Qing Dynasty to smoothly encircle and suppress the Russian army in the Caucasus.

But the final outbreak of this endangered and weak people ushered in a brutal revenge from the Russians, who quickly captured the Kalmyk soldiers in the Russian army and then sent troops to suppress the Kalmyk rebellion. The old and weak remnants of the Kalmyk army could not resist the attack of the regular Russian army, and could not even keep the pastures of the lower Volga, so they could only retreat south, hoping to be resettled by the Qing Dynasty.

The Manchu army, with the Turkut Mongols as the main officer class, began to launch a more fierce attack, successfully breaking through the Russians' blockades, and went north to meet the Kalmyk old and weak women and children.

The Manchu army continued to enter the Russian hinterland through the Caucasus, gradually approaching the Volga River, and the Russians continued to draw reinforcements south, although they did not need to draw the same force as the Manchus, only two or three hundred thousand men were convinced that they were capable of holding off the Manchu army's attack. This is not an unaffordable figure for the Russian army, which has 2.5 million troops.

But in front of them was a well-armed, well-equipped, well-trained, and two-year war experience. It is impossible for the military movement of hundreds of thousands of people to be free of any flaws, and the top commanders of the Chinese army, who have been waiting for the Russians to make mistakes for three years, are absolutely unwilling to let go of this opportunity.

For those politicians who are strategizing in the rear, they always ignore the feelings of the soldiers, throw them on the cruel battlefield, and then seem to wait for the outcome of the war, just like the gamblers throw their chips and wait for the cards to be opened, but for the soldiers, the time on the battlefield may be the most brilliant time in their lives, but also the most cruel time, the most brilliant time when life burns, and the most critical time when life is tested. They are tempered here, they are sentenced to life and death here, and for them, this is their stage.

They have the most intuitive understanding of the battlefield, the closest touch, and the most sensitive reaction, Chunjiang Plumbing will always be the prophet of ducks.

The deployment of the Anglo-Russian coalition forces, the main force is concentrated in the area of the Tulgai Plateau, the Ishim River originating in the Kazakh hills flows north on the edge of the Tulgai Plateau, and the Tulgai River flows south from the Tulgai Plateau, with only a narrow watershed of about ten kilometers in the middle, the coalition forces are deployed along the river, the British army is mainly along the Tulgai River in the south, and the Russian army is on the Ishim River defense line in the north, which is a complete terrain, so that their defense line is also very complete, and there is no flaw in the front.

The military movements of the Russians are all in the rear, and the rear troops deployed in the Volga and Urals are separated from the Chinese army by the entire frontal heavy army group, and if the Chinese army detours to the rear, it means cutting off the entire Russian army's rear route and encircling more than two million Anglo-Russian troops in Kazakhstan.

This means that the Anglo-Russian coalition forces will be completely annihilated!