"Your Majesty, this is news from Jinzhou."

Qian Dafu entered the imperial study and placed a telegram in front of Xiao Ming.

Glancing at the contents of the telegram, Xiao Ming frowned, this telegram was sent by Qi Guangyi, but the incident happened five days ago.

"The telegraph line has been laid to Jinzhou?" While pondering the contents of the telegram, Xiao Ming asked Qian Dafu about the laying of the telegram, and now Qian Dafu seems to have become his secretary.

"Back to the emperor, it has arrived, this is the first telegram sent from Jinzhou." Qian Dafu said with a smile, "In addition, Chang'an in the west and Jinling City in the south are now also connected by telegraph, and many transfer stations have been built for this purpose." ”

Xiao Ming was slightly satisfied with the laying of telegraph lines, although war is now the main color of the country, but the development of technology, industry and commerce in China has not stopped.

In particular, Qingzhou University has become more and more detailed in the division of majors, and now corresponding research laboratories have been set up in various colleges, such as bridge construction, civil engineering, applied chemistry, materials science, mineral exploration, mechanical physics, clinical medicine, etc.

From the last year of the seventeenth century to the thirteenth year of the eighteenth century, in fourteen years, he finally established a complete scientific system at the level of the mid-to-late nineteenth century with the huge scientific library of scientific and technological crystals.

More than ten years ago, the level of science and technology in Europe was equivalent to that of the middle and late eighteenth century, a hundred years more advanced than that of the Great Chongqing State at that time, but now even if some of his technology was obtained through despicable means, European science and technology was still far behind him.

"Well, it's not bad." Having praised the progress of the construction, it was only then that he seriously thought about what was on the telegram.

According to Qi Guangyi, the barbarian banner leader Gurat was ready to secretly cooperate with them, on the condition that his tribe would become subjects of the empire and be able to live on the grassland.

If it had been before, Xiao Ming would naturally not agree to this condition, because he could not tolerate the existence of grassland tribes on the grassland that could threaten the frontier.

But now it is different, the appearance of the machine gun has put an end to the era of cavalry, and the modern barbarian is nothing more than a harmless little white rabbit to him, and the only thing he needs is for the barbarians to submit to him, and from then on honestly herd horses and sheep and cattle for him on the steppe.

It's just that under Dorgo's rule, this could not have happened, after all, his sons had died under his ranks.

In addition, he also couldn't bear to take Dorgo and his tribe to join Tsarist Russia, because this would undoubtedly strengthen Tsarist Russia.

Therefore, he had to wipe out Dolgo at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains to prevent him from escaping to the steppes of Eastern Europe.

Thinking of this, he drafted a war report for Qian Dafu to send to Jinzhou, and then passed it from Jinzhou to Qi Guangyi, and at the same time asked Qi Guangyi to be more vigilant in the war report, because the Tianshan Mountains straddle contemporary southern Xinjiang and Kazakhstan in Central Asia, and here Tsarist Russia is getting closer and closer.

Five days later, his order reached Qi Guangyi.

"The emperor means to cooperate with Gurat to eliminate the remnants of Dolgo's Golden Horde." After getting the telegram, Qi Guangyi said to Feng Dongjin.

Nodding slightly, Feng Dongjin said: "This Gurut is a shrewd person, but I didn't expect to guess the emperor's mind. ”

"That's right, this Gurat is very good at seeing the situation, and he knows how to be flexible, but he is also a wallhead, but now that the empire is strong, he can only fall to us." Qi Guangyi said lightly, "In this case, immediately send someone to contact Gurat, and this time we must annihilate the Golden Horde cavalry." “

Feng Dongjin was still a little hesitant, he asked, "What if there is fraud?" We must always leave a hand on the barbarians. ”

As his words fell, the soldiers suddenly became noisy, and the two looked west, where a large number of black dots appeared directly in front of them.

Qi Guangyi looked at the binoculars, his heart sank, these black dots were the barbarian cavalry, and he immediately shouted: "Prepare for battle!" ＂

His order was given, and the soldiers immediately mounted their horses, and the muzzles of their guns were pointed at the rushing cavalry, but to their surprise, the cavalry all stopped when they were five hundred meters away from them, and three barbarian cavalry came out of the middle of the cavalry and came directly at them.

Qi Guangyi saw the face of the person who came clearly through the binoculars, and said in surprise: "It's the cavalry of Gubat." ”

Feng Dongjin also saw the person who came clearly, and he also showed a look of surprise.

Seeing this, the two waited in front of the battle for a while, and soon Gurat arrived in front of the two.

Seeing Guate again, Qi Guangyi and Feng Dongjin were a little surprised, at this time, Gurat still had a bit of a barbarian flag head, completely like a defeated general.

At this time, his tattered armor was stained with coagulated blood, and within half a step, he could smell a stench mixed with blood.

Behind him were frightened soldiers and people, all with tired faces and fearful eyes, and even some wounded soldiers moaning in the ox carts, all of which told them that something had happened to Gurat.

"Flag Chief, what's going on?" Qi Guangyi asked.

The Adam's apple flipped up and down, Gurat sighed for a while, he turned over and dismounted and said in a hoarse voice: "General Qi, Feng Changshi, something is wrong." ”

Qi Guangyi and Feng Dong glanced at each other, he did not let the soldiers relax their vigilance, dismounted and the two went to Gubat.

On the other hand, Gurat was a little ashamed and said: "Two generals, the plan has changed, and now our tribe is difficult to protect itself." ”

"Why is that?" Qi Guangyi asked in confusion.

Gurat was a little sad and angry, he said, "Originally, everything could go smoothly, but I didn't expect that my tribe had a traitor and leaked my plan to Dorgo, and Dolgo was angry and personally led troops to attack my tribe. ”

After a pause, he continued; "Originally, I was not afraid of him, at most I would fight and lose both, but I didn't expect the 30,000 Gosats cavalry of the Tsarist Russians to come suddenly, and the 50,000 cavalry I led were defeated, so I could only flee westward, but the Gosat's army was still in hot pursuit, and if it wasn't for the desperate resistance of my generals, I wouldn't have been able to escape to this place."

"Gosat!" Gubat's words made Qi Guangyi and Feng Dongjin suddenly solemn.

"It's true, it's the Gosat cavalry of Tsarist Russia, these cavalry are also equipped with firearms, and we are no opponent at all." Gurat looked desperate.

He was lucky to be able to escape this time, but two-thirds of his people died at the hands of Dolgo and Gosart.

Qi Guangyi's eyes turned, in fact, he had this kind of worry in the process of westward expansion, after all, the farther west he went, the closer he was to the Eastern European steppe, and that was the birthplace of the Gosart cavalry.