The city of Astrakhan is a historical city with many monuments.

Situated in the Volga Delta region and the northern seaport of the Caspian Sea, Astrakhan is a true land of fishing, and has been inhabited since many years ago. After the rise of the Mongols, it served as the autumn residence of the Golden Horde, and from then on, the city of Astrakhan was a major commercial center on the way from Persia and India to Europe.

After the city of Astrakhan was occupied by Tsarist Russia, as an outpost of Tsarist Russia's southward expansion, and because of the important geographical location of Astrakhan City, it not only blocked the Volga River, but also included the Caspian Sea, so Tsarist Russia has always attached great importance to the construction and control of Astrakhan City.

Astrakhan City not only built the Astrakhan Kremlin, but also the famous Cathedral of the Assumption and the Holy Trinity, Preobrazhensky Monastery, St. John's Church, etc., this is only in the city, not far from the suburbs outside the city, there is also a residential area called the White City, where many merchants and Tsarist settlers from the Eastern European Plain broke in, which is extremely prosperous. Moreover, because the Russian troops in the city fled in a hurry, many residents did not have time to react and escape, and the city of Astrakhan was already occupied by the Chinese imperial army. As a result, the inhabitants of the city closed their doors and prayed anxiously for God's blessing.

And what they didn't know was that for them a catastrophe had quietly begun.

Staying in Astrakhan City for these two days, Shi Dakai and a group of staff members all lived in the Astrakhan Technical School in the west of the city, the entire technical school is full of books on Western philosophy and natural science, quite comprehensive, although this school has only been built for a few decades, but the scenery is picturesque, Shi Dakai liked this place at once, because the school occupies a wide area, in addition to living in the school himself, he also transferred all the infantry divisions of the Third Field Corps to the school, and guarded the school.

As for the other Fourth Field Corps, Shi Dakai directly transferred it to the outside of Astrakhan City and stationed it in several directions to prevent a surprise attack by the Russian army, and at the same time to respond to the slow and difficult movement of the artillery division that had just crossed the Volga River, and more importantly, once there was a change or news of the 60,000 cavalry, he could respond as soon as possible.

And Shi Dakai asked all the slaves to be transferred into the city of Astrakhan or on the outskirts of the city, if it weren't for the fact that Astrakhan City could not accommodate more than 100,000 people, he would have been ready to let all the slaves into the city. Moreover, Shi Dakai summoned the chief generals of the Sikh, Gurkha, Bengal, Kazakh and other coercive armies, revealing one of his own intentions, which made the main generals of the coercion army very surprised, and then overjoyed!

Shi Dakai means to use this period of rest and recuperation, open for 3 days, unlimited military orders, no military discipline, and let the coerced army move freely, of course, it is impossible to rebel, these coerced generals are already aware of the huge gap between their own troops and the Chinese Imperial Field Army, there is an infantry division of the Third Field Corps stationed, naturally no one dares to act rashly.

These coerced generals naturally understood that this was a kind of goodwill and reward released by the righteous king Shi Dakai, and it was a reward for everyone's great victory in this western expedition. That is, in the traditional sense, it is not forbidden to prohibit military discipline, Shi Dakai turned a blind eye to the behavior of the various coercion and served the army, and did not make any requirements for military discipline, and let the army set up for three days.

Thus, a ransack of the city of Astrakhan began.

Because most of the residents of Astrakhan are Orthodox Christians, and most of them believe in the coercion army of Sikh, *** and Buddhism, etc., they did not spare their hands at all, and the most ruthless column was not the Sikh army and Gurkha who fought bravely, but the Kazakh army that has always been inconspicuous. The Kazakhs have always had a generational hatred with Tsarist Russia, and it just so happened that almost all of the Kazakh Khanate was invaded by Tsarist Russia, and countless Kazakhs were forced to leave their homeland and were driven by Tsarist Russia to develop Siberia or the Arctic, and the fattest land and the most beautiful women in their homeland were occupied by the Cossack soldiers of Tsarist Russia, so the Kazakhs have always had a deep hatred with Tsarist Russia. This expedition, I thought that firstly, it was an order from the suzerain, and secondly, I could avenge myself, but now that I have this kind of opportunity, how can I miss it, even if the residents of this Astrakhan city are not the Cossack army that bullied them, they can't take care of so much, after all, among the residents of this city, there are not many Cossacks, and the most important thing is that the faces and appearances of the enemy troops who invaded the Kazakh Khanate are not much different. Once this restraint is lifted, the army is completely disorganized. Fortunately, the subordinate armies of each waki, in order to prevent conflicts and even fights between each other due to the competition for territory, the subordinate armies of each waki, divided their own areas, and ordered that they should not approach each other within 50 meters.

After the Kazakhs snatched all kinds of treasures from the Kremlin in the city of Astrakhan, and then lit a fire to burn the entire Kremlin, the whole city of Astrakhan fell into a frenzy.

The Sikh army was slightly better, although they fought bravely, but they did not like to fight, the chief general of the Sikh army only ordered to rob all the belongings of the residents in his jurisdiction and the treasures in the Cathedral of the Assumption and the Church of St. John, and, even at this time, these Sikh troops were still strictly disciplined, and did not kill people indiscriminately, even for those misers who clung to the money bags at home, they were also stunned with the butts of their guns, and the money bags were snatched away, and they were not like other coercive armies, Shoot them or stab them with bayonets.

But the other coercive armies were not so friendly. The three armies of Gurkha, Kazakh, and Bengal all rushed into residential areas like wolves, seized property in sections according to the limits of their respective areas, and at first killed the Russian people in the city at the slightest obstruction, while the Kazakhs were purely looking for Russians everywhere for pleasure in torture and killing, and even forgot to loot their belongings.

By the next morning, the Russian people in the suburbs of the city were getting better and more revolting. They were not good people, they were either rich and powerful landlords and merchants, or people who had retired from the former Cossack army and had stolen some property from Siberia and the Kazakh Khanate before moving here, and more and more people resisted, and there were even cases of Russian people in the city picking up muskets and firing at the coercion army, which completely ignited the anger of the coerced army. Even after the Sikh army lost several men, even the docile Sikh army began an unprecedented massacre.

The entire city of Astrakhan was filled with retaliatory acts of torture and massacre. The coercion army went from being mainly about looting property to mainly hunting and killing Russians.

In this way, within three days, the city of Astrakhan was screaming and screaming, and by dusk the next day, more than 28,000 Russian residents had been killed. The total number of people inside and outside the city of Astrakhan was less than 30,000, and hundreds of Kalmyks had already been protected in the barracks of the Fourth Field Corps, and in fact, almost all the Russian people inside and outside the city were slaughtered. Next to the Volga River, corpses were piled up, and all the cathedrals in the city, such as the Cathedral of the Assumption, the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, and the Preobrazhensky Monastery, were all burned down by these non-Christian and Orthodox crumb soldiers after looting all their belongings, even including the houses of some of the inhabitants of the city.

If it weren't for Shi Dakai, who was in the Astrakhan Technical School, he found that there were fires everywhere in the city, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to strictly prohibit setting fire to the city, but he was afraid that the entire Astrakhan City would be burned to the ground.