Just when the main force of the Ming Navy blocked the main force of the French Navy in Da Nang and formed a temporary fleet to attack and plunder the French overseas colonies, the performance of the French was amazing. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, the battle situation was already obvious, and after losing sea supremacy, they had no chance of winning.

They neither asked the Da Nang fleet to attack and regain sea supremacy, nor did they negotiate with the Ming Dynasty to preserve their remaining interests.

Because they have relapsed into political chaos, their cabinet has fallen again, and this time it has always been difficult to elect a new government.

In just two years, the Three Realms Cabinet fell, after the Battle of Haiphong, after the fall of the Ruferi Cabinet, after the Battle of Hue, the Brisson Cabinet fell, after the Battle of Malacca, the Fréssi ** Cabinet also fell, after this fall, no one was willing to come to power to form a cabinet, because it is clear that whoever comes to power will have only one end, and the person who comes to power will also be responsible for the loss of the Cochinchina colony, and no one wants to bear this pot, so there is no cabinet candidate.

For more than three months after the Battle of May, the French cabinet was vacant, and there was endless arguing in the parliament all day long, some demanding the withdrawal of troops, some demanding the continuation of the war, and French President Grevy was also involved in a foul smell of his son-in-law, and some parliamentarians stared at it and demanded that the president resign and reopen the election.

The chaos of French politics makes people unbearable to look at directly, at this time, the British want to mediate, but they can't find a person who can talk rationally, and the French play this kind of political tricks, and no one else.

The president is mired in scandals, parliamentary debates are undecided and uncertain, the cabinet has fallen without a ruler, and the land and naval battles have been lost one after another, and in this situation, it would be hellish if the French army is still fighting high.

Therefore, on the battlefield in Vietnam, the French army fell into a rare state of silence, as long as the Ming did not take the initiative to attack, they would be exhausted. For a time, there was no war in Da Nang.

But there is a war in Saigon, and the more and more common rural guerrillas have caused most of the 400,000 reinforcements to be thrown into the war of law and order, yearning for reinforcements from the north, that is, they can't get out of the way, and there is no road.

I can only watch the Ming army approach Saigon step by step, compared to the French army, although the Ming army was also demoralized due to illness and other reasons, but in a victory, gradually eased up, and continued to go south along the repaired railway, captured the ancient port of Hoi An in May, and obtained a base in the south of Da Nang.

In July, the Ming army went south to Quy Nhon, in August to the area of Longshan Temple (Nha Trang), and in September it had reached the Saigon River, which was across the river.

The French army built a position of more than 80 kilometers along the winding Saigon River, with a plan to defend this place, and the Ming army relied on the railway, not in a hurry to attack, but camped and encamped, looking like a protracted war.

At this time, Saigon had more than 500,000 troops, of which 300,000 were regular French troops, more than 200,000 were Vietnamese puppet troops constantly recruited by the French, and 300,000 French troops were also scattered in other places in Nanqi, of which nearly 200,000 were French regular troops and more than 100,000 puppet troops.

The strength of the Ming army was also 300,000, and at this time there was no ability to cross the river to encircle the French army, so they could only strengthen their positions on the one hand, wait for reinforcements on the one hand, contact the local rebel army on the one hand, and sweep the area north of the Saigon River on the other side, cooperate with the Vietnamese to form a government, restore the rule of the local area, so that the Ming army can get a stable rear.

As for crossing the river to attack the French army, to be honest, except for the top brass of the army, the civilian government was not enthusiastic, because absolute superiority had been achieved, the defeat of the French army was a foregone conclusion, and everyone did not think that there was any need to sacrifice the lives of the soldiers for this.

The civilian officials believe that as long as the domestic political chaos in France is over and the new prime minister comes to power, the French should leave anyway, of course, the new cabinet will soon fall after carrying this black cauldron, but that is none of the business.

In addition to the military, what is more of a headache for the civilian government is the political and diplomatic affairs, Russia has basically captured Xinjiang, the Hongfu Khanate established by Agubai collapsed in an instant, and under the division and attack of the Russians, the last one picked up the various forces that attacked each other, except for Kashgar as the territory of Agubai's son Huda Huli, who nominally continued to maintain the Hongfu Khanate, the whole of Xinjiang has actually been included in the Russians' domination.

The Russians extended the east-west bunker line they had established in Central Asia to Xinjiang, and finally the Russians firmly incorporated Xinjiang into the Russian-ruled area by merging the two major bunker lines, the Syr Darya bunker line and Siberia in Ili, Xinjiang. Relying on the defensive line composed of pillboxes, the Russians gradually squeezed the sphere of influence of the nomads in Central Asia, and continued to bloody cleansing of the steppe peoples, where the bloody struggle for survival was staged, which was not common in this era.

After the Crimean War, Russia's westward expansion was blocked, and it could only go east and south, whether it was east or south, the South Russian steppe was a must pass, Russia had already destroyed a series of Mongol Turkic khanates here before Peter the Great, and established the Russian steppe governorate on the original Kazan Khanate and Astarakhan Khanate, built fortresses, immigrated churches, and assimilated local peoples.

After that, Russia began to attack the Kazakh Khanate in the south, and after annihilating the forces of the three major khanates of Kazakhstan (large, medium and small), the Kazakh khanate was abolished, and the Kazakh nation was unified under the Great Khanate, but in fact the Kazakh nation had become a protectorate of Russia. In 1822, Russia promulgated the "Regulations on the Kyrgyz of Western Siberia", abolishing the Khan of the Kazakh Khanate, and instead dividing the Kazakh Khanate into administrative regions of Russia, formally annexing the Kazakh Khanate.

After the annexation of Kazakhstan, to the south to the borders of Afghanistan and Persia, there were three khanates, the largest Kokand Khanate, the Bukhara Khanate and the Khiva Khanate.

After the Crimean War, Tsarist Russia was unable to compete with Britain and France in the Mediterranean, and once again turned the direction of expansion to the south, squeezing the living space of the steppe peoples. During 1859~1863, Tsarist Russia carried out frequent military operations in the Syr Darya River and Chu River valleys, capturing and destroying the fortresses on the Kokand border, and targeting the most powerful Kokand Khanate as the first target of aggression.

Tsar Alexander II openly declared that "once our flag is planted, we will never let it come down again!" ”

At the end of 1863, Alexander II ordered a line of eastern and western pillboxes to penetrate deep into Central Asia. In the summer of 1864, Colonel Chernyaev led 2,500 men to capture the fortress of Ole Ata. Colonel Velevkin led 1,200 men to capture Turkestan, a Muslim holy city in Central Asia. At the end of July, the tsarist government decided to create the "New Kokand Line", which consisted of the entire fortress of Janni Kurgan from the Chu River to the Syr Darya River.

In order to dispel the concerns of Britain and other Western countries, Russian Foreign Minister Duke Alexander Gorshkov declared that Shymkent was the geographical limit of the Russian army's southward advance, but in less than half a year, the Russian army launched another offensive and conquered Tashkent, the largest city in Central Asia.

In May 1868, taking advantage of the continuous offensive between the Bukhara Khanate and the Kokand Khanate, Russia sent 3,500 men to occupy Samarkand and Kata-Kurgan, the important cities of the Bukhara Khanate. In June 1868, in a decisive battle with the main forces of the Bukhara Khanate at Kata-Kurgan, the Bukhara Khanate surrendered after defeating the Bukharan army, which outnumbered him ten times as many as himself. Recognition of the annexation of Khozhant, Ula Chube and Jizzaks to Russia, cession of Samarkand and Kata-Kurgan, and an indemnity of 500,000 rubles. Bukhara became a Russian vassal.

Then there was the Khiva Khanate.

In February 1873, Tsarist Russia launched a powerful offensive against Khiva from the occupation of the Central Asian cities of Turkestan, Krasnovosk, Mangeshrak, and Orenburg, and in June occupied the city of Khiva, where it carried out a genocide of the nearby population. Later, the Russian-Greek Peace Treaty was signed, in which the Khiva Khanate ceded all the land on the right bank of the Amu Darya River and paid an indemnity of 2.2 million rubles, and the Khiva Khanate became "a servant of the emperor of all Russia".

The Khiva Khanate perished.

In 1875 and 1876, a great national uprising broke out in Kokand, and the people of Kokand, Namangan, Andijan and Margoland waged jihad against the Russian invaders. The Russian army carried out a bloody suppression of this uprising, and the Russian army washed the entire Fergana Basin in blood, only in Andijan, Skobelev commanded the Russian army to bombard it with artillery, and the city of Andijan was basically flattened, and more than 20,000 insurgents were buried under the rubble. On February 7, 1876, the Russian army occupied the city of Kokand, and on March 2, Tsarist Russia officially declared the annexation of the Kokand Khanate, which was changed to Fergana Province with Skobelev as governor.

The Kokand Khanate perished.

Russia completed its conquest of the three major khanates of Central Asia.

Emotional factors aside, Tsarist Russia's conquest of Central Asia can be called the largest conquest in human history after the Mongol government activities. The resulting geopolitical impact will undoubtedly change human history and the geopolitical pattern.

Even the rebellion in northwest China had the impact of the Russian conquest, and it was Russia's constant attacks on the Kokand Khanate that allowed the Kokand Khanate's army to enter Xinjiang and establish the Hongfu Khanate.

It also brought the direction of Tsarist Russia and Britain to the Indian Ocean, and from then on Britain must once again open up a strategic direction to contain Russia.

Looking at the conquest of the Russians, there are no more than three methods, the army opens the way, the pillbox advances, the church is stationed, and then the blockhouse is used as a base to settle, suppress, massacre, and assimilate the steppe peoples, the Kazan Khanate conquered in the 16th and 17th centuries has been completely assimilated, and the assimilation in Central Asia has just begun.

Historically, by the time of the disintegration of Soviet Russia, the Russian nation had accounted for about 40% of the population in the lands of the Kazakh and other Central Asian steppe peoples.

Unlike in history, this time the Russian army, the pillbox line, the church and the migrant stronghold penetrated deep into Xinjiang.

It is difficult to determine whether the ethnic groups of Xinjiang will face the shock wave of Tsarist conquest and whether they will be able to preserve their own ethnic culture and their own living space under the strong impact of polar bears.

Because there is no doubt that Xinjiang has become the front line and the main direction of the next round of conquest by Tsarist Russia. Because Tsarist Russia's southward expansion was strongly blocked by the British.