Chen Ming was very formally preparing for reinforcements against the Ottomans.

Although it is impossible for Chen Han to maintain a large contingent on the western coast of the Caspian Sea all year round, Nanjing can take advantage of the opportunity to take a piece of enclave from the western shore of the Caspian Sea when Istanbul opens its mouth.

What's more, Chen Han can make a name for himself in the heavenly world.

The so-called hearing is better than seeing, hearing is false, seeing is believing.

Since the Sixth Russo-Turkish War, although the Ottomans have fallen into disadvantage, there is still a very common saying in Istanbul, in the entire Ottoman Empire, and even in the entire Celestial World, which is deeply believed by tens of millions of Celestial People.

- The victory of the Chinese and Swedes was based on the struggle of the Ottoman Empire. It was the heroic battles of the entire Ottoman Empire that gave the Chinese and Swedes a good advantage of being outnumbered.

The main forces of the Russians were concentrated in the Ottomans, including the Kingdom of Austria. Although the Ottoman Empire was outperformed, its armies fought against the main forces of the two European powers.

After countless people positioned the Ottoman Empire from hanging the whole of Europe to a level comparable to a single European power, the performance of the Ottomans in this war was quite good.

Such rhetoric glorified the Ottoman Empire and degraded Sweden and China.

Although Chen Ming knew that this 'rumor' was based on facts, and the reality was like this, he was still very angry in his heart.

I feel like I'm being looked down upon. I was very annoyed, but I knew that there was no way to send out this anger.

And now the Ottomans could not hold it anymore, and not only began to ask China for financial and military support, but also hoped that China would send troops to the western shore of the Caspian Sea. They could even send in their troops to build a fortified garrison for the Wehrmacht in a dangerous area.

Chen Ming immediately decided that he would send his most elite troops to the west coast of the Caspian Sea. Let the entire heavenly world have a good look at the combat effectiveness of the Wehrmacht, which is not comparable to their so-called new army.

The northern shores of the Caspian Sea are low and flat, with a large amount of alluvial material washed down by the Ula River, the Terek River and, in particular, the Vova River, and the deltas of these rivers are widely developed. The central west bank is hilly. The foothills of the Greater Caucasus Mountains seem close to each other, but are separated from the coast by a narrow coastal plain.

Azerbaijan is now divided into many small states, among which the largest Baku Khanate, although it has been at war with Russia for many years, but the suzerainty of the Baku Khanate is not the Ottomans, but the Persians.

At this time, neither the Ottomans nor Chen Han were willing to push the 'neutral forces' into the arms of Russia, so this exact foothold could only be the northwest of the powerful West Coast.

To the north of the central hilly region and to the south of Astrakhan.

And this is where the Russian army in Astrakhan is noticed.

This city on the Volga Delta was the last major city through which the Volga River flowed. It is about 100 km southeast of the Caspian Sea. It was built in the thirteenth century and has a long history.

In 1558, Ivan IV's army captured Astrakhan without blood, incorporating it into Muscovy. Soon after, the Tsar ordered the city to be relocated to the opposite bank downstream, in order to make it easier to defend itself against the annoying neighbors. Between 1582 and 1589, the first white stone Kremlin in the lower Volga was built on the new site. In Ancient Rus' [the predecessor of Russia], the high-walled fortresses with guard posts were called the Kremlin. Since then, Astrakhan has become an outpost of southern Russia. Now, two hundred years later, there is not only a stronger fortress, but also thousands of Russians and Cossacks.

If Chen Han can wedge a nail in the edge of Astrakhan, it will not have an absolutely significant impact on Russia's military operations on the front line in the Caucasus, but it will definitely have a brilliant effect.

The emperor moved his mouth, and the villain ran and broke his leg.

Chen Ming had already made up his mind to pay attention, and the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion naturally had to obey orders, so the General Staff Department ushered in such a big problem.

The Caspian Sea is a vast lake in terms of size, but its hydrological characteristics are also very complex.

The currents here are mainly cyclonic circulation, and several local circulations can be formed in various sea areas.

In the North Caspian Sea, the Volga River flows into the sea and divides into two branches: the main one flows south along the western bank; The other flows eastward along the north bank, forming a small anticyclonic circulation in the northeast. The flow velocity varies with the wind, generally 10~15 cm/s, and when there is a strong northerly wind, the western flow rate reaches 30~40 cm/s, and the maximum can reach 100 cm/s.

The Middle Caspian Sea is controlled by a large cyclonic circulation.

The southwest and southeastern parts of the South Caspian Sea each have a cyclonic circulation. As a result, a coastal current is formed in the western part of the Caspian Sea from north to south, with an average velocity of 25~35 cm/s, while a coastal current occurs in the eastern part of the Caspian Sea from south to north. The average flow rate is about 10~15 cm/s.

Ocean currents can accelerate where they meet strong winds, and the sea surface is often choppy. Near the Apsheron Peninsula, the storm's maximum wave was more than 9 meters high.

Such a hydrological situation is not simple to say, and it is not complicated to say that it is complicated.

Because part of the southern shore of the Caspian Sea was controlled by the Persian kingdom, if Chen Han wanted to cross the army to the west coast of the Caspian Sea, he would have to transport it by ship unless the army fought all the way to Astarahan.

However, the Russians had already begun to build a small fleet in the Caspian Sea sixty or seventy years ago, under Peter I.

Although this fleet has not been useful at all in the sixty or seventy years since its establishment, it is also a professional small fleet, isn't it?

The Caspian Sea Fleet of later generations can become a "brilliant achievement" in military history, but it has been idle for too long.

So much so that many people did not know about the existence of this fleet in later generations in China. Russia's fifth-largest fleet is also described by the media as a fleet kept in a fishbowl.

Now the scale of this fleet is very small, not even a fraction of the 148 large and small warships of later generations, a total of only about 20 small sailing ships, the largest tonnage of the warship seems to be a sail warship that cannot be hung up to the sixth class, a sloop sloop warship with a tonnage of more than 300 years. Armed with 14 artillery pieces and a hundred and ten members.

And the tonnage of other warships is even less, just like gunboats, they can compare with the warships of our Qing Dynasty.

There are four or five guns less, and ten guns are smaller.

The number of members was small, the ships were old, and the latest ship to be launched was ten years old.

A lot of the craftsmen of the Astrakhan shipyard have been transferred, and the rest of the people are okay to make fishing boats, and if you want to build warships, you don't even think about it.

But the small fleet in Astrakhan was still a great threat to the plans of the Wehrmacht. But how can this small warship be cut?

Chen Ming explained the task, and he just waited for the conclusion.

The superior is like this, you don't need to do things yourself, otherwise what is the status of people in society?

Of course, when Chen Ming made his request, he did think of a solution himself. But forgive his limited brain capacity, he really can't think of it.

The errand was handed over to the General Staff.

This was a problem for both the Ottomans and the Wehrmacht, although the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea had not yet been desertified and desertified, and the coastal areas were still full of green meadows. But where did the Wehrmacht ship come from?

In the future, if we want to maintain an army on the west coast of the Caspian Sea for a long time, we also need a fleet that can travel between the two sides of the strait.

Chen Ming didn't think about it, and the only one who turned his brain was the General Staff.

Not to mention how much headache the staff had after receiving this task, it was only said that after Chen Ming sent away his six younger brothers, he was surprised to find that the spirit of his father Chen Hui, who had been in his life, seemed to have withered all of a sudden.

This dad really has a deep affection for his youngest son.

Chen Ming touched his nose a little sneeringly.

Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it entered the early winter of the sixteenth year of Chengtian.

Shezhil Aliyev moved his shoulders, and the icy wind was burrowing through the cracks in the tattered felt blanket he was wearing. Aliyev could already see the tall castle fortress of the Chinese. Aliyev had mixed feelings in his heart - at one point they had set their sights on this place, drinking Lake Mabarkhash. Later, they retreated under the attack of the Chinese, but many people still had one idea - to fight back as much as possible. But now they have finally returned, but as captives......

These Russian prisoners of war were not allowed into the city – in fact, most of the Wehrmacht and vassal cavalry were camped outside the fortress. Almost one side of the entire outer perimeter of Shattered Leaf City was occupied by various military tents, and it looked as if it was under siege.

Chen Ming personally named the city on the western shore of Lake Balkhash Broken Leaf City, although he knew very well that Broken Leaf City in the Tang Dynasty was not here.

Even many ordinary people know that today's 'Broken Leaf City' is not the Broken Leaf City where the poet Immortal Li Taibai was born. As a result, the fortress city has a new name in China: Broken Leaf New Town.

There were also plenty of camps on the other side of the fortress, but they were all in dilapidated shacks - on the other side were Kazakh and Mongol settlements. The protracted war has brought more and more Kazakhs and Mongols to the edge of Shattered Leaf City. Not only because it's stable, but also because there are more opportunities to make money.

This kind of 'war migration' has always been the most chaotic and filthy place, but here it is the opposite—whether it is the Kazakhs, the Mongols, or the Andijans, all of them may not have to be disrupted, but their dwellings, the shacks/yurts, have to be built in strict accordance with the designated locations, and there are uniform water intakes, fire points, and places to dispose of excrement and household garbage at intervals. The shanty towns are separated from each other to prevent the spread of fire and disease.

- Except for the tattered buns/shacks/yurts themselves, and the various people who came and went inside, the overall layout of this refugee area was even neater than the barracks of the vassal cavalry on the other side. Everyone who saw it for the first time was stunned - no doubt it was the work of the Wehrmacht.

The group of prisoners of war was no exception, and with a roar of amazement, they bypassed the small camp of the homeless camp and finally arrived at the end of the long 'march', the prisoner of war camp, a large shanty town, as they had seen before.

The prisoner-of-war camps were located in the encirclement of several IDF garrisons, apparently to prevent them from bombing the camp or escaping. There were not many soldiers guarding the prisoner of war camps, and even less in the Wehrmacht, many of whom were vassals.

"The 305th team, 1,000 people delivered on time."

Although the Wehrmacht on the opposite side was only a sergeant, the Kazakh nobleman who led the escort did not dare to slack off at all—he had to come forward to do the handover himself, because he was the only one in the whole team who knew the Chinese script and the series of numbers. And the Chinese opposite, not to mention the sergeant officer, any ordinary soldier can read the handover document - because the sergeant officer brought a team of ordinary soldiers, at this moment they are all holding a table, according to the grouping data of the 305 team against the number of people present.

Looking at the Wehrmacht soldiers on the opposite side who carefully checked the numbers, a mixed feeling of envy and chagrin rose in the hearts of the Kazakh nobles - the children in front of them were about no older than their eldest son, but they could all read and write. His eldest son had a lot of scriptures with Ah Hum and could write Arabic, but now he was almost blind. The knowledge that once made his eldest son proud, with his head held high, is now worthless.

Why was I so unenlightened at the beginning? Instead of sending the eldest son to Lake Balkhash and Jaisangbo, and Jin'er to Ili, he taught his son to the local Ahum, and then went to Mecca.

The remorse of this Kazakh nobleman can swallow him whole.

No one said that the person who taught his son's younger generation to the Chinese in the first place was a deviant and a big fool. They are 'prophets', far-sighted, long-term. He saw the prospects of the Chinese early on, sent his blood relatives, and easily maintained his position in the new khanate.

You don't even have to run to the front line to fight for your life and death.

As long as their sons and younger generations are still around, the future of these families is infinitely bright.

And when more and more people graduate from Ili, and even from Lanzhou, Xi'an, and even Lushan, Wuhan, and Nanbeijing, more and more such people occupy the top of the new khanate, then the status of these people is like a package ticket after another. As long as they don't look for death by themselves, in just three or two generations, they don't have to worry about the decline of their clans at all.

I can't regret it!