At this moment, Shi Dakai, looking at the green smoke that was still rising in the city, remembered the news that he had just received the news that nearly 30,000 residents had been slaughtered, and couldn't help but sigh.

Tao Jintang, a staff member next to him, hurriedly comforted: "King Yi doesn't have to be soft-hearted, these Tsarist Russian people, unlike the Han family sons of my Chinese Empire, have been hard-working and benevolent farmers for generations, most of these people are the relatives of the Cossacks who suppressed the resistance of the Caucasian people, and many of them are retired people who were originally Cossack cavalry members. Besides, those who are not of my race will have different hearts. These Russians are not like those Sikhs and Bengalis, they are easy to control, and it is better to erase them. lest they prosper, and organize the expansion of their forces, and invade the territory of our Chinese Empire to the east.

Besides, the righteous king should not only be for this matter. Sacrificing these alien races and helping the righteous king clear his suspicion can be regarded as their achievement. ”

Shi Dakai knew that Tao Jintang had seen through his intentions, and he no longer concealed it, nodded, breathed a sigh of relief, as if it was much easier to say it to others, and said: "Mr. Tao is right, it is such a truth, and this king also understands!" It just has to be like this! Sometimes...... People, it's better to think about it more...... I had to plan for myself. I admit that I was a little selfish, and I just used these local people to protect myself with their lives. Even they weren't innocent, but in my heart, I always owed something! ”

"Alas, why should you be like this, righteous king! Although his subordinates have not been in contact with His Majesty, according to his understanding, His Majesty is not the kind of person who is suspicious of loyal ministers. Tao Jintang sighed: "What's more, King Yi, your great contribution has gone beyond the ranks of ordinary courtiers, and Your Majesty has always regarded King Yi as your closest brother, even if it is King Xinzhong who has been staying by Your Majesty's side, or Zuo Zongtang, Chief of General Staff, or Premier Zeng of the cabinet, their status, or the degree of closeness in Your Majesty's heart, has always been inferior to King Yi. Even if you win a great victory in the western expedition, Your Majesty will never suspect you.

I see, King Yi, do you want to help the Turkut or Kalmyk tribe to slaughter all the Russian people in this Astrakhan city, and then through immigration, all the Turkut tribes will be moved here to settle and develop, so as to occupy this Astrakhan city permanently. At the same time, by controlling these easily controllable Turgot tribes, the Chinese Empire took control of the place.

King Yi, you are occupying this land once and for all and opening up territory for the Chinese Empire! I can even imagine that it is precisely because of this that the Turghut tribe will be vigorously developed, and it will become a powerful Turghut Khanate in the future, and then the entire Kazakh Khanate will be sandwiched in it, and at that time, even if there is any betrayal of the Kazakh Khanate, it will be calmed down at once. ”

Shi Dakai sighed with emotion: "Yes! Not only that, but this is not just the Turgot tribes, and I am going to suggest to Your Majesty that other Mongol tribes loyal to Your Majesty be relocated here as well, so as to strengthen their control over this place. Through more than ten years or even decades of hard work, this land has finally become the absolute sphere of influence of our Chinese Empire. ”

After speaking, Shi Dakai stood up, and the guards said: "Pass the order, tonight, let all the soldiers hand over thirty percent of the captured wealth to this king!" Then, tomorrow they split up and march westward into the Gulf of Azov in the Black Sea, telling them that there is no need for military discipline. And to the south, the generals of the field corps led by the king arrived in Baku and joined up with the other friendly forces! ”

Tao Jintang said with some emotion: "King Yi, you, why do you have to be like this? My subordinates don't understand, why do you have to pour some sewage on yourself in this way?

You asked those coerced generals to burn and loot all the wealth to hand over to you, but in fact, you will not use any of it, nor will you immediately reward us subordinates and soldiers! Instead, they were secretly brought back to China, half of which was quietly distributed to the families of our soldiers, and the other half was used to build schools and sponsor them!

All the stigma is on your back. The subordinates can't figure it out, King Yi's set of methods of learning from the ancients to defile themselves is so simple, Your Majesty must be able to see it, but why does King Yi still do it? ”

Shi Dakai smiled self-deprecatingly: "Your Majesty is extremely wise, and naturally knows how clumsy this king's self-defiled performance is. But it is precisely because of this that the king has made known to His Majesty the deeds of this king. This king has never worried that His Majesty will be suspicious of me, but after all, His Majesty is the king of a country, and there will be other people around him to remind him to guard against this king. After all, as the prince of the opposite sex of the empire, the minister of defense, and the chief general of the Western Expedition, the power position and military power are very amazing, if there is any misconduct, Your Majesty and the country really have no good way, and only Your Majesty will be so relieved to completely hand over such a large number of troops to this king!

Therefore, this king does not want to embarrass His Majesty. And through this method, to send such a signal to His Majesty and the other ministers in the court, this king has no dissent! At the same time, His Majesty must also understand the intentions of this king, and will not rush this king back to the country.

This is a great opportunity for this king to make contributions and open up territory for my Chinese sons and daughters, and this king certainly does not want to miss it! If self-defilement can achieve the goal, what is it! ”

Early the next morning, Shi Dakai received a message from the 60,000 cavalry sent earlier.

It turned out that the 60,000 cavalry sent at the beginning were going upriver along the Volga River, preparing to cross the Volga River from the Volga River, bypassing the Russian defense line to attack the city of Astrakhan from behind, and at the same time luring away the Russian army's naval division on the Volga. I didn't expect it to work not long after I set off. The sailors of the Russian army really sent most of them against the current to chase after them. The cavalry relied on the speed of their horses and went all the way upstream, while the Russian sailors were also determined to follow all the way. After two days of following in this way, 60,000 cavalry of the Western Expedition finally got rid of the tracking of the river division and crossed the Volga River in the delta area covered with river networks.

However, it was precisely because of the dense river network that the cavalry was delayed, and the inland river division did not hesitate to risk following it, the cavalry division was furious and designed a trap, and when the river division entered a narrow river bay, it suddenly dropped a large number of wooden bamboo rafts from the upstream, laid oil and grass and other combustibles, and rushed down with a fire, burning most of the Russian inland water divisions that could not evade, and the rest were also captured on the spot.

However, because of this, it was delayed for a few days, and when the cavalry troops were going down the river and preparing to attack the city of Astrakhan from the west bank of the Volga, they happened to meet 25,000 Russian troops who had fled north from the city of Astrakhan, and this time it was a complete uproar. The Russian troops who fled north were already small in number, and most of them were infantry, and they thought that this cavalry team of the Chinese Empire was specially designed to deal with them, and they were defeated like a mountain. At this time, the cavalry would not give up such a good opportunity, launched a pursuit, and completely defeated this Russian army.