Chapter 424 The Tsar is dead, and Huang Tian is in charge

The atmosphere on the border became more and more tense on the basis of the intention of both sides, and the Chinese army continued to advance towards Yili in three directions, and the Tsarist side naturally learned about it very quickly, and also constantly reported to the Siberian Governor's Office, and after the Siberian Governor's Office was in power, it continued to ask Moscow to send troops.

The Tsarist army, which originally wanted to use the advantage of cavalry to harass and blackmail China, found that the strength of the Chinese army had grown surprisingly sharply, from tens of thousands to 100,000 at once.

They did not dare to move for a while, and the Chinese army moved extremely slowly, advancing ten miles and ten miles a day, even if it was like an offensive posture, but it was not very like.

Well, among the 100,000, there are mostly militiamen, and there are also a large number of immigrants.

The people who moved in from Shanxi and Shaanxi followed the army, cultivating the land in the back, and resettled the main ones.

After getting so much grain from India, Yang Dongfang had the confidence to move more people to Anxi Province, otherwise just eating noodles would be enough to toss.

It is said that in order to stabilize the huge Anxi Province, the immigrants have developed from 100 acres of land per person to 200 or even 300 or 400, which means that if a family of all ages comes, a family will become a big landlord.

The introspection implements the policy of fighting landlords and liberating the land, but there is no need here, and even great encouragement, so it attracts a large number of people who have a deep attachment to the land.

At the same time, the most attractive point for them is that these lands do not need to pay taxes, not now, and will not be used in the future, and this alone is enough to make people crazy.

Although the grain tax has been reduced to the extreme, it still has to be paid, and it is a ladder price, and there is no need to wade through the mountains and rivers to Anxi, and you don't have to suffer from the crime when you come to Anxi, so you don't have to suffer, so you will naturally get the enthusiastic response of the people.

Therefore, if there are more immigrants, there will naturally be more militia, and the reserve army will be huge, which naturally makes the Tsarist Russian army jealous, thinking that the Chinese army really wants to recapture Yili this year.

At this time, they felt that the defense was very insufficient, so for the next three or four months, the Cossack cavalry continued to come through the Kazakh steppe, along with tens of thousands of Russian infantry.

Time passed little by little, from summer to autumn, from autumn to winter, the Chinese army's advance was getting slower and slower, but the Russian army was waiting for it, but one day it suddenly received bad news.

"General Cliff! Big things are not good. ”

"Mentorev! What are you panicking about, isn't the Chinese army a turtle and rushing towards Yili? General Cliff perked up, stood up, and felt that his broadsword was hungry and thirsty, and the Chinese army could fight and move when it came.

But destined to disappoint him, Mentorev said: "No! General Hua Jun is still a group of cowards, just for show, without much action, but ...... But something went wrong in Siberia. ”

"What! Something is wrong in Siberia? What could go wrong there? Cliff was confused, and Mentorev said directly: "The governor's palace has been breached by a group of mysterious troops, and His Excellency the Governor has been killed in battle!" ”

Cliff couldn't believe it, his eyes widened, and he stared at Mentorev for a long time, seeing that he didn't seem to be a fake, and then realized that it was not a joke.

"When is the news! Is this army a rebellion against those serfs? ”

Mentorev explained that he had arranged for Omsk, after the Governor's Palace was breached, and that the men there had broken several horses and sent them through the steppe at least two days earlier.

"I asked the person who sent the news, it shouldn't be a rebellion of serfs, serfs don't have such strong combat effectiveness, I heard that the weapons used by that group of troops are all muskets, but they launched an attack from inside the city, and they broke through the governor's palace at the first time, and the whole city was received by them in less than half an hour." Mentorev thought about it for a while, but finally guessed:

"General! Do you think it will be Hua Jun! ”

"Hua Jun! Unlikely! Cliff shook his head in denial, how could the Chinese army unknowingly touch the city of Omsk, which is 1,200 kilometers away from Tacheng, the most border city in China.

At such a long distance, it is impossible not to be discovered, and it is not that there are no troops to monitor the area around Tacheng, and because of the geographical conditions, it is not suitable to station too many troops.

Mentorev also felt that his guess was a bit nonsense, so he shook his head and asked instead: "What should we do about the general?" ”

Siberia has a problem, although it is not too much of a threat to this side, after all, their logistics and transportation are directly from the area of the Caspian River.

However, it will have some impact, which is like the loss of the barrier on the wings, in case Siberia is fierce, it is very unfavorable for Tsarist Russia to control the Kazakh steppe, the Kazakh steppe is high in the southeast, low in the southwest, and the Caspian Sea is the lowest, if this army grows and sets off a large-scale serf rebellion, sweeping from north to south to collude with China, it will have a chain reaction.

Cliff said: "Just act according to the plan, closely monitor the Chinese army, this matter is considered by Moscow." ”

However, the news that came in the next few days made them very uneasy, and this mysterious army successively attacked Ihim, Petropavl, Kurgan, Tyumen, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, and even Ufa in the west!

"How so! It's all hit to the Urals! What kind of army is this! Cliff, Mentorev and others, who received the news, were dumbfounded, and in less than ten days, the enemy attacked dozens of cities one after another and marched more than 1,000 kilometers.

This kind of speed was only done by the Mongolian Iron Cavalry of the Oriental Whip back then, and the thought of **** made them tremble, although more than 20% of the people in Tsarist Russia had Mongolian blood, but they instinctively rejected the Oriental Yellow.

"Now I feel more and more that this is the Chinese army!" Mentorev became more and more convinced: "You should have also heard of the fact that the emperor of China can fly, he can fly from one city to another, in the blink of an eye, so it is likely that the emperor of China personally led the army to attack the hinterland of our Tsarist Russia!" ”

Hearing him say this, everyone will also be skeptical, and they used to think that Hua Guo was to promote Yang Dongfang's invincibility, and this ridiculous myth was made up, but now it seems that it is not impossible, otherwise why would Hua Guo defeat the Qing government and retreat from the British and French forces.

More importantly, the abnormal move of the Chinese army in Anxi Province, but the slow advance of the increase of troops, is it to transfer troops, causing the area east of the Ural Mountains to be empty.

However, there has always been an empty army, and the soldiers and horses transferred here were drawn from the Caspian Sea area, the lower Volga River bordering the Ottoman Empire.

Of course, this may also be because China does not understand the situation in Tsarist Russia, so it is too much.

Just when the Tsarist Russian army here was suspicious and waiting for news from Moscow, Moscow had already exploded.

There are rebels in Siberia, and they have captured dozens of cities one after another, all of which have reached the Ural Mountains, which is worth it, and after crossing the Ural Mountains and the Volga River, it is only seven or eight hundred kilometers away from Moscow.

"Bastard! This must be Huaguo's army, it must be that Yang Dongfang, it must be him! Summons the order to assemble a large army, destroy him for me, and must eliminate Yang Dongfang! Alexander II Nikolayevich roared inside the palace.

Last year, Huaguo attacked the concession in Tianjin for no reason, detained the minister, and he didn't have trouble with him, so he attacked Huaguo and blackmailed him, and he was so good that he led his troops to kill the territory of Tsarist Russia, and his uncle could bear it, but his aunt couldn't bear it.

However, some ministers questioned: "Your Majesty! The Chinese army is unlikely, they are now preparing to attack Yili, I heard from the front line that there are still more troops there, where do he still have troops to cross the border and attack our country! ”

This reason is very strong, many ministers support this, in their eyes the Eastern Empire is still that decadent and incompetent era, how much has China changed to replace the Qing Dynasty, Hua Guoguo is only a little more than a year, even if it is strong, it is impossible to be strong enough to cross the border to attack thousands of miles and attack so many cities.

"How impossible, how impossible, you see what they are under the banner? The tsar died, and Huang Tian was in charge! What is this, what is this? Nikolayevich tore up all the reports that had been sent, and the ministers were silent.

If you want to say that this mysterious army makes the emperor angry the most, it is here, you will attack the city and plunder the land, what slogan to make!

Rebelling with slogans is rebellion, what kind of tsar is to be beaten, Huang Tian is in charge, our tsar is still alive and well, this is a curse to die early, anyone who listens to it will be angry.

Damn, the rebellion is justified!

Perhaps this is the reason why the emperor thinks that Hua Guo did it.

(End of chapter)