Chapter 358: Tsaritsyn and Kazan
In March of the seventeenth year of the Apocalypse, the railway had already repaired Fumin City and reached Boling City, which was 500 miles west of Fumin City. Yes, it was snatched from the Rakshasas by Xue Boling, about a thousand miles from the Ural Mountains.
As a result, the goose-killing operation formulated by the Ming General Staff Headquarters and named by the emperor himself officially began to be implemented. Cao Wenzhao commanded five divisions, and Zhou Yuji commanded five divisions, one in the north and one in the south, and at the same time launched an attack on the Rakshasas east of the Ural Mountains.
In the past few years, the Daming Research Institute has finally developed what the emperor called thunder mercury, and the rear loading firecracker began to be equipped in the army. However, because of the short time, only Zhou Yuji's two divisions were equipped, and the other troops did not complete the redress. Originally, Zhu Youxiao was preparing to launch an attack after the whole army changed its equipment, but Lu Xiangsheng said that it would take at least five years for the equipment and subsequent training to dispel this idea.
The construction of the railway made the food and ammunition of the Ming army very sufficient. On the first day of the first month of March, when the weather was still very cold, Cao Wenzhao personally led a division, Zhang Zongling led a division, Xue Boling led a division, and the three divisions led more than 30,000 people to directly attack a castle of the Rakshasa people on the eastern side of the Ural Mountains.
Zhang Zongling's troops were the vanguard, and this castle was just a small castle, surrounded by a large number of Rakshasas. The Ming army easily repelled the Rakshasa army that blocked the way and quickly occupied the place.
Later, Cao Wenzhao and Xue Boling also rushed here, and after the three of them discussed, Zhang Zongling's army built a castle here, while Cao Wenzhao and Xue Boling continued to attack to the west.
Zhou Yuji's troops, on the other hand, went straight to the upper reaches of the Ural River, a place called Chelyabinsk by the Rakshasas, and after a short rest here, continued their attack to the west.
In the vicinity of the Ural Mountains and the Ural River, a large number of people can already be seen. Therefore, Cao Wenzhao and Xue Boling marched westward with confidence, and on April 12, they reached Kazan, the capital of the original Kazan Khanate, with the strategy of fighting and supporting the war.
The Kazan Khanate was a Tatar state that was occupied by the Rakshasas in 1556 AH. The occupation was not long, and the Rakshasas were more ferocious, so the Tatars easily fell to the Ming army of the same skin color, helping the Ming army collect food and hunt down the Rakshasas. In the territory of the Kazan Khanate, with Kazan as the center, all the Rakshasas died or fled, and became a yellow-skinned world.
Zhou Yuji continued to advance westward, all the way to Tsaritsyn on the right bank of the Volga. The more resistance they received when they fought westward. Zhou Yuji's principle is very simple, after capturing the Rakshasa people, he first asked, "Surrender?" ”
Those who don't surrender are killed, and those who surrender are let them lead the way with their original weapons and kill the nearby Rakshasas. With this method, the Ming army did not suffer much damage, but the effect achieved was very good.
The plan formulated by the General Staff Headquarters was to hit Kurzin and Kazan, so after the Ming army hit here, it stopped the offensive. Construction of the castle began, and exploration of the railroad was carried out.
Soon His Majesty the Emperor named Tsaritsyn the city of Yuji, and ordered the Ming army to deploy along the Volga River to block the Rakshasas two hundred miles away from the Volga.
At this time, the Rakshasa Kingdom was headed by Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov as Tsar, that is, Mikhail I. He had a weak character, and power was actually concentrated in the hands of the great nobility of Moscow. The nobles had just tasted some sweetness from the Siberian fur and timber trade, and were expelled from Siberia by the Ming Dynasty. And now the Ming Dynasty has attacked from Siberia to the Volga River, the mother river of the Rakshasas. The uncle could endure it, but the aunt didn't do it, so the Rakshasas raised their army and killed Tsaritsyn.
The weapons of the Ming army are much more advanced than those of the Rakshasas, especially Zhou Yuji, two divisions are equipped with rear-loading firearms, both in speed and power, they are much stronger than the front-loading firearms, and the Ming army's flowering bullets are far stronger than the solid bullets of the Rakshasa people, so Zhou Yuji relied on the city to easily resolve the offensive of the Rakshasa army. The Rakshasas left behind dead bodies in one place, but they caused almost no casualties to the Ming army.
At this time, Mikhail I received a report that the Polish king Władysław IV had sent an army of 30,000 to Moscow. More than ten years ago, Poland also attacked Moscow, although it did not capture Moscow, but in the end, the Rakshasas ceded a large amount of territory to Poland, and the matter was settled. Now Moscow is empty, and the Poles will most likely take Moscow.
The Rakshasas and the Ming were in a territorial dispute, while Poland was a battle for the Tsarist throne. More than ten years ago, the war between Poland and the Rakshasas was a matter that the Poles thought should be the Tsar of Poland, the current Polish king, so if they were defeated by the Ming army, it would be just a matter of cutting a few cities and losing some money. And if it loses to Poland, the Tsar's position will not be guaranteed.
Mikhail, of course, knew which was more important, so he sued the Ming army for peace. Zhou Yuji proposed that all the two hundred miles west of the Volga River should be owned by the Ming Dynasty, and the Rakshasa people must compensate the Ming Dynasty with 500,000 taels of silver, and the Rakshasa people agreed without hesitation.
The two sides signed the famous "Volga Peace Treaty", and the Rakshasas immediately withdrew their troops back to Moscow, waiting for the Polish army. Seeing that there was nothing to take advantage of, the Poles slowly withdrew their troops, and by the way occupied a few places closer to Poland to compensate for their losses.
The Ming Dynasty stepped up the construction of railways and transported more domestic migrants to both sides of the Volga. In order to make up for the lack of immigrants, the Ming began to recruit displaced people from all over Europe. It doesn't matter if you are a Rakshasa or a Swede, a Pole or a Cossack, as long as you are willing to change your surname to Han, you can become a free citizen of the Ming Dynasty. Receiving large tracts of land for free, paying a very low tax rate (twice as much as that of the Ming people), they could live freely on both sides of the Volga.
For the poor people living in Europe, it was a luxury to be able to eat well, and even the double tax rate of the Ming people was pitiful compared to the double taxation of the church and the king in the country. As for changing to a Han surname, it is not unacceptable for them at all. In particular, the Cossacks, who advocated freedom, heard the word freedom, and they were eager to give birth to wings and fly over, and soon villages were lined up on both sides of the Volga River, including Han Chinese and Europeans.
The most naturalized Europeans came here to naturalize the Rakshasas. What a good thing it was for a serf to be able to farm and feed himself, and not have to pay most of his income to the nobles and the king. Moreover, Daming also provides seeds and grain, which only need to be returned with some interest after harvest, which is worth it no matter how you look at it.
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