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Or its current name, Krasnovodsk.

At this time, the port, which had only been built for less than five years, was busy, and as the main support of the Russian Empire's strategy in Central Asia, all kinds of ships were constantly coming from the distant Volga River every day, laden with all kinds of weapons and ammunition that were urgently needed in Central Asia. They were then loaded into camels and wagons and transported through the steppes and deserts to their respective tribes, where they were armed and ready to defend themselves against the dragons of the East, and the warriors of the lords from Khiva, Bukhara and even distant Kokand waited every day to receive the gifts of His Majesty the Tsar in distant Moscow.

He was not an infidel.

He's not a Kafir.

This problem has been solved perfectly.

Including the Ottoman Emperor, a large number of elders of the Sunni Shia faction, as well as Constantine, the two patriarchs of Jerusalem have jointly issued a reconciliation decree in Istanbul, reinterpreting the Orthodox Church and Yislanism, and no longer regard each other as pagans but brothers from different tribes who believe in the same deity, and even the problems between Shiites and Sunnis have been resolved, which can be said to have plagued the two religions for thousands of years, and have not been solved until the original history and modern times. And so it was resolved.

Of course, it was forced.

Forced by the Holy Sect and the Ming Army under the banner of the Holy Sect.

Although Hussein survived in a compromised way, everyone understood that the reason why Persia had not yet been annexed by the Ming army was only because he was groveling enough. And a wolf will definitely not let go of a good meal because of a sheep to his own ** girl, when to take a bite on the neck just depends on when the wolf is hungry. Therefore, the Shiites can only hold the Sunnis or the Ottoman Empire, saying that in addition to the fragmented and scattered India, at this time Musilin will still have their two brothers and sisters, and if they stab each other, it can only be said that they were kicked in the head by a donkey.

And in the same way, the Musirins can only choose the great tui of God.

After all, they have no choice.

Although Ahmet III's move is suspected of flattery, but at this time there is no longer so much to care about, although it is quite cheap to lean on the door and laugh, but when it comes to the moment of life and death, there is no choice, but for his flattery, the Vatican and the capital of Moscow have not responded. The two patriarchs of Constantine and Jerusalem were raised in Istanbul, and Ahmet III asked them to cooperate, and they had to cooperate, but these two are different, of course, they will not say anything, after all, everyone really needs to unite at this time, and if they do not unite, they will kill themselves.

"A bunch of rubbish!"

Major Apraksin stood on the deck, dressed in a splendid military uniform and with aristocratic haughty, and looked at the Khivas who were welcoming them on the dock and said with disdain.

"Major, you shouldn't describe an empire's vassal monarch like that."

A middle-aged man in a more ornate military uniform beside him patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Although there is nothing wrong with what you said, we must fight side by side with these guys in the next time, so even if you don't like them, you should show at least respect, after all, the more they die, the less I will die." ”

"Yes, Your Excellency Marshal!"

Major Apraksin bowed his head and said.

"Your father will be proud of you."

said the marshal.

"Honorable Great Khan, Field Marshal Menshikov of the Russian Empire, salute you on behalf of His Majesty the Tsar!"

Then he said loudly to a man on the shore.

"Your Excellency, welcome!"

The latter said with the same smile.

This was a meeting between Menshikov, a favorite of Peter I, a famous general of the Russian army, who had historically become a Russian vassal by virtue of his friendship with his widow Catherine I, and the Great Khan of the Khiva Khanate, Sherhan.

Behind the former was a large fleet of transports, which came from the Volga and crossed the Caspian Sea with a full load of 30,000 Russian troops, this was the Central Asian Army of the Russian Empire, Menshikov was the commander of this large army, and he would next be the commander of the alliance of the four vassal khanates of Xiaoyuz, Khiva, Bukhara and Kokand, the latter had a total of 150,000 troops, and the vast majority of them were cavalry.

As for their tasks......

"Attack Dragon City!"

Menshikov patted the map and said imposingly.

"Your Excellency Marshal, the defense capability of the Ming army is almost impeccable, there has not been an army that has been able to break through their defensive fortress for more than twenty years, and the numerical superiority is meaningless in the face of their barbed wire and artillery fire, not to mention that Dragon City is still behind them, and now that the fortress of the Ming army has been established on the Syr Darya, it is impossible for us to cross these strong fortresses to attack Dragon City, but attacking these fortresses will drain the blood of our soldiers."

A Great Khan said.

"Great Khan, are you just sitting back and waiting for the Ming army to reach Longcheng by railway? At that time, they would attack not one army, but ten armies in Central Asia. ”

Menshikov said.

The latter was silent.

In fact, Khiva, Bukhara, Kokand and the four Khans of Xiaoyuz all understood this, and the main reason why the huge war machine of the Ming army was not run over was that the railroad was not repaired and could not meet the logistics of more troops.

Distance is their natural barrier.

At present, the Ming army has only one cavalry corps in the three provinces of the Western Regions, and there are ten other local garrisons, with a total strength of more than 50,000, but it is these more than 50,000 Ming troops who have pressed them to nightmares every day, and even wiped out two of the three Kazakh Yuzi, and now they have begun to attack the control area of Xiaoyuz.

Now is indeed a good opportunity to take the initiative.

After the separation of the Hanhai Task Force, the Ming army only had two cavalry brigades and teams directly under the military headquarters left in the rear, and there were two-thirds of the heavy artillery brigades, and then there were ten local garrisons, which needed to guard the vast land of Lianghe, Beiting, and Shannan provinces, and the local garrisons could not move, and the heavy artillery brigades had no mobility, and only those two cavalry brigades were really mobile in combat.

But this is the siege......

What a lesson from the past!

From Kang Mazi to the Dutch to the Mughals, Javanese and even Egyptians, how many once powerful armies fell in front of the Ming army's fortresses and fell victim to their bloodletting tactics, even if these Great Khans were in Central Asia, they also knew this, and after being bled dry, they could not stop the Ming army's next attack.

"We don't have to attack the Syr Darya."

Menshikov said with a sudden smile.

The four Great Khans' eyes widened at once.

"We're attacking here."

Menshikov said, pointing to the map.

The four Great Khans looked at each other, and soon came to their senses one by one.

"Sitting still is death, fighting is just death, the lord is above, go out and do it with these demons!"

Kokand Khan drew his sword and said viciously.

Well, that place is......

"Shannan."

In the General Staff of the Ming Army, Gao Huai, the new chief of the General Staff of the Ming Army, said.

"The ministers estimate that their goal is Shannan, and the goal of the Russians is nothing more than to force us to withdraw from the Hanhai Task Force, but to attack Longcheng must face a series of our fortresses in Lianghe Province, and they know very well that it will drain their blood, and they do not have the courage to face these fortresses directly, so Shannan is their best choice, and attack Shule directly from Kokand to the east of the Green Mountains. There are only four local garrisons in Shannan Province, and they can use cavalry to cut off the connection between these garrisons, and then break through each of them, even if they can't be overcome, they can take a siege, and then divide a part of the cavalry to directly attack Luntai and threaten our steel base. If the cavalry of Dragon City returned to defense, they would attack Lianghe, their strength would be enough to attack in both directions at the same time, and then they would also use cavalry to cut through the local garrison besieging us and attack Dragon City, so that our only option was to withdraw to the Hanhai Task Force to defend Dragon City. ”

Then he added.

With the pervasiveness of Jinyiwei, of course, he will not be unaware of such a major event as the landing of the Russian army in Turkmenbashi.

"They probably don't know that I have hundreds of thousands of troops there."

Yang Feng said with a sneer.

"Send an edict to Lu Yi to collect all reserves and reserves in the three provinces of Lianghe, Beiting and Shannan, and prepare to meet the enemy's invasion."

Then he added.

He knows very well what the Russians want to do, it is nothing more than to use these cannon fodder in Central Asia to obstruct his railway construction, the Xijing Railway has been completed for the most part, and there will be two more years at most for the Lansu and Suzhou sections to be connected, and the Luntai to Suzhou section will also be connected, although it will take a few years to reach the Longcheng section, but the Daming railway can really extend into the Western Regions.

The Russians don't have much time left.

Or that the whole Western world is running out of time.

Delay in the construction of the Ming Railway, is the best way for them to gain time, send 30,000 Russian troops to mobilize the courage of the cannon fodder in Central Asia, let them and the Ming to start a war to threaten the Luntai steel base, if you can use the speed advantage of the Central Asian cavalry to hit Luntai, it can undoubtedly be said to be the most perfect, even if it cannot succeed, it can force the Ming army's Hanhai task force to withdraw to defend Longcheng, and buy time for the Russian army to build a defensive line in the Ural Mountains.

Anyway, it was Central Asian Muslin who died, and Peter would not be distressed.

And in this way, he can also show his value to the European monarchs behind him, and he can be a little tougher when he wants to sponsor it next, after all, he can be regarded as a barrier to Europe at this time.

In that case, let's play with him.

Yang Fengcai is not worried about the lack of troops, he does not have many troops in the Western Regions, just a first cavalry army, and half of it is divided into expeditions to Hanhai, but there are nearly two million immigrants in the three provinces of Beiting, the vast majority of these immigrants are young and middle-aged, and the vast majority of them are reserve and reserve members, and like the Americans when they entered the west, the vast majority of people, including women, can use guns, and the vast majority of families have horses and large four-wheeled transport carriages, as long as the number of garrisons in the Western Regions can be expanded tenfold immediately under an order.

As for the supply of weapons and ammunition......

There is no need to worry about this, no one in those immigrant families has stockpiled a hundred or ten rounds of ammunition, just like Shule, which is the farthest prefecture and county from the mainland, it is not uncommon for ordinary people to have a whole box of bullets in their homes, not counting those arms dealers in this area. The limited supply of materials for the Ming army refers to the regular army, which refers to the local garrisons of the field army that use breech guns and cannons, and the ordinary people who still use paper shell bullets to pre-load rifles and even smoothbore guns have no restrictions, and even many families make their own bullets to use in order to save money!

The 200,000 troops that the Central Asian countries were able to muster were drowned in the vast sea of people's war in minutes.

And that's exactly what happened.

Immediately after the Xijing Garrison issued an order for the mobilization of the whole district, a wireless telegram was issued to the three provinces, and then the governors of the three provinces immediately ordered the collection of reserves and reservists for the whole province, and these orders were quickly sent to the provinces, counties, and even every village through the cable telegraph network, and even the most remote settlements were ordered in a short time. Then, in the three thousand miles of land from Jinshan in the north to the Green Mountains in the south, almost all the young men mounted their horses, carried their rifles, and even left their homes with dry rations and ammunition, and then converged at the nearest assembly point.

After arriving at these assembly points, the officers of the local armed forces departments would group them, and the reserves would be organized directly according to the regular army, and the arsenals would be opened and replaced with breech-loading guns, and even artillery and rocket artillery would be handed over to them, and then the sentry battalions and brigades would converge and reinforce the front line according to the orders of the Xijing Garrison.

The reserve was upgraded to a reserve, trained according to reserve standards, and formed into a local garrison to keep an eye on the slaves and subjects and to be ready to support the regular army.

The reserve system of the Ming Dynasty is not fooling, Emperor Yang is reviewed every six months from time to time, maybe one day he will issue an order in the palace, specifying that he does not know which unlucky reserve brigade will be fully loaded and driven to him within the time limit, and then another equally unlucky reserve brigade will conduct a confrontation exercise at his designated location, and the winning officials will all be rewarded and the losing competent officials may have to be thrown to the end, and those who lose too badly may even be thrown directly to Xijinzhou for exile.

Under his torture, the Ming Reserve has always maintained strong combat effectiveness.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the Ming army has fought for more than 20 years, and there are a sufficient number of retired officers and soldiers among the people, and the mercenaries have always been a thriving business in the Ming Dynasty, after all, the rich experience in fighting this matter is extremely important.

Unbeknownst to Menshikov and the Great Khans of Central Asia, the former was leading 30,000 Russian troops through the wilderness toward Samarkand, while the latter hurried ahead of them to their territory to gather their respective armies for a final assault on the Ming army.

The last indeed.

There will be no next time for them.