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Kulen, the royal palace of Mongolia, the imperial study.

"Well, then let's try it, you can make a detour to Nikolaevsk, go to the Korean Peninsula by sea and land."

Hearing Yi Xin say Su Shun's plan to "set fire to the backyard", Muravyov shook his head lightly, and now the gap in strength between the "Mongolian" and the Ming Dynasty can no longer be bridged by conspiracy. However, he still agreed to let hundreds or thousands of Eight Banners warriors go to North Korea to die.

"Your Excellency the Governor, I would like to select 500 Eight Banner warriors, plus 500 Korean warriors, and let them set off in seven days."

Yi Xin said. Now there are still a small number of Koreans in his Mongolian country, which is the original "Eight Banners Korea", which had as many as 400,000 people at the earliest! However, after several years of tossing, there are less than 100,000 left, and some of them are to be placed as serfs in various parts of Siberia by Muravyov. About 50,000 people followed the Joseon king, Yi Yuying, and was placed on the banks of the Selenga River, north of Kulen, to cultivate land.

"Well, okay." Muravyov took a map drawn by a Russian, spread it out on Yixin's desk, and took out a red and blue pencil from his pocket and sketched it a few times.

"Your Majesty the Great Khan, this is the anti-Ming strategy I have drawn up, you can take a look."

Yi Xin leaned over and took a look, the map was drawn very simply, the blue arrow probably represents the Ming army, there are two in total, one arrow along the Krulun River to the west, and one arrow extends north from the two cities of Guisui in Monan, taking the trade road from Shanxi merchants to the north. There is only one red arrow, which stretches north from Kulen to the city of Buying and Selling. There is also a circle drawn in red pencil around the Buying and Selling City.

"Your Excellency the Governor. Are we going to give up Cullen? ”

"Yes. Cullen must be abandoned. In the Khalkha Mongols, they carried out a scorched earth policy, destroyed all the settlements, robbed the Mongols of the last livestock, and let the Tengri Khan worry about filling the bellies of hundreds of thousands of people. And we will concentrate all the elites in the three places of Maicheng, Irkutsk and Nebuchu, and build a strong star fortress to defend it......"

"But, Your Excellency the Governor, doesn't this amount to giving up the whole of Khalkha Mongolia?"

Muravyov nodded: "Well, that's right! Khalkha Mongolia must be abandoned. Our strategy is to trade space for time. The main battlefield was placed south of Lake Baikal, as far as possible from the logistics base of the Ming army. Because the farther away from the logistics base, the weaker the strength of the Ming army, the more advantageous it will be for our defense. ”

"Your Excellency the Governor, judging from the map, the Ming army is divided into two routes, of which the Ming army on the south road should be Miao Peilin's training army, maybe we can concentrate our forces to destroy the south road of the Ming army first?"

Yi Xin showed an eager expression, he had read a lot of military books these days, and also focused on studying all the examples of the Qing army of Nurhachi and Huang Taiji against the Ming army. I am already familiar with military books, so I can see the loopholes in the deployment of the Ming army at a glance - the division of troops is weak! Yi Xin's Eight Banners Army can mobilize seventy or eighty thousand. The Russian army can send at least 5,000, and it should have the strength to break through its way!

It's called "You can come as many times as you want." I'll just go all the way", it is said to be the essence of Nurhachi's military thought.

"No, it can't be like that." Muravyov looked at Yi Xin, and then poured a basin of cold water on it, "It can't be defeated, the Ming army has 10,000 guards cavalry, which is trained and equipped by French instructors according to the standards of French heavy cavalry." Even my Cossack cavalry can't beat them, and if you change to your Eight Banner cavalry, they can fight ten of them at a time! So as long as Miao Peilin has 5,000 guards cavalry in his hands, there is no way for us to defeat him on the grassland. ”

Yi Xin's expression suddenly fell, a Ming army guard cavalry can fight ten Eight Banners strong army...... That's awesome, isn't it? However, he knew that what Muravyov said was probably true, because he knew that his Eight Banners were really a bit bad.

It seems that Nurhachi's military thinking is outdated, because at that time, the Ming army did not have a single cavalry to fight ten.

He sighed softly, "So...... How to arrange the hundreds of thousands of women and children of the Eight Banners? Can it be possible to give them land around Lake Baikal? ”

"This ...... It will be arranged by the authorities of Western Siberia, and the area around Lake Baikal may well become a battlefield, and it is very irresponsible to keep them stranded. ”

Muravyov said seriously. But in his heart, he thought, "You still want land!?" The Russians are not treated so well! It's better to be a serf honestly, there are many aristocratic farms in Western Siberia, and serfs should be in great need, and it is good to arrange them. It's a bit of a long way, and if you walk there, only the strongest women and children can reach it, so they will be very good serfs......"

……

The Zhengda Guangming Hall of the Old Summer Palace has now been arranged as a war room, the throne in the hall has been removed, and huge military maps have been hung on the walls, a topographic map of Mobei Mongolia, a topographic map of the coast of Heilongjiang, and a topographic map of Xinjiang-Central Asia. They are all carefully drawn according to Western military surveying and mapping standards, but they may not be very accurate.

In the center of the main hall is a large sand table, which shows the terrain around Mobei Mongolia and Lake Baikal. This was the main battlefield of the Ming army in 1853 and 1854, in which the cities of Maimai, Nebuchu and Irkutsk were replaced by a model of a star fort. Obviously, Muravyov's strategy was no secret to Emperor Zhu's French military advisers, and it was all the old methods used by the Russians in the European wars.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, if my prediction is correct, Muravyov will not dare to fight with the Ming army in the field. On the Mongol-Baikal battlefield, his strategy should have been to hold on to the cities of Mashi, Nebuchu, and Irkutsk. Taking advantage of the long distances and the winter of 1853 to engage in delaying tactics, and possibly to send elite cavalry to harass our logistical lines. And on the coast of Eastern Siberia, he may hold on to Nikolaevsk and Petropavlovsk. According to intelligence, the Russians have been building large star forts in these areas since 1850. ”

Lao Peel, who served as the deputy chief of the general staff of the Ming army, held a long whip in his hand, knocked here and there on the large sand table platform, and introduced the situation of China and Russia to Emperor Zhu. Since the entire Eastern Front battlefield is relatively close to China's core area, the overall advantage is on the Chinese side. However, Muravyov is not without fighting power, and the tens of thousands of Eight Banners in Yixin's hands will definitely be used by the Russians.

"Can the Russians afford the logistics of tens of thousands of people on the Eastern Front?"

"Probably......" shook his head, "there is some arable land around Nebuchu and Lake Baikal, the Selenga River basin has been reclaimed to a certain extent, and there are farms full of people on the north bank of the Heilongjiang River. I think Muravyov must have some food in his hands. However, he probably would not leave all the bannermen under Yi Xin in Eastern Siberia, and would evacuate all the people who could not fight to the west of the Yenisei River and distribute them to noble farms as serfs. ”

"Be a serf...... What a way out! Zhu Jishi sneered, "It seems that Crown Prince Alexander has not been able to abolish serfdom in Russia." ”

"It's not going to be easy."

"Perhaps this defeat will make the Russians realize the need for reform, and if Russia carries out the abolition of serfdom and constitutional reform, she will show extraordinary potential for development." Your Majesty, you should be prepared for a long struggle against the Russians. Russia will not be defeated by a single defeat, and the tenacity and tenacity of the Russians have long been proven by European history. ”

"It's a big deal, it's a bad battle for decades or even hundreds of years!" Zhu Jishi slowly walked around in front of the sand table with his hands behind his back, and said in a somewhat mocking tone, "I think, there must be some European powers looking forward to the long-term confrontation between the two land powers, Ming and Russia, right?" Why don't I let them get what they want? ”

Old Peel frowned slightly, as if he didn't quite understand Emperor Zhu's words. Zhu Jishi laughed coldly, turned his head to Liu Jiong, the chief of the general staff, and ordered: "Liu Qing, I hope that the army of the southeast and southeast roads can take Kulun before the end of May, and before the arrival of winter, the Ming army should seize the trading city!" In addition, the engineering corps was supposed to lay the railroad to the city before the end of 1854. (To be continued......)