The Russian army is surrounded. It was less than five miles outside the city of Guangren, and Golpakovsky chose to camp in the camp.

The expeditionary army consisted of four infantry battalions armed with mini rifles. The forces lost on the battlefield can be replenished immediately from the volunteer battalion. With an absolutely superior cavalry unit, even if the artillery fire power is greatly weaker than the opponent, the Russian army, which can be forced to crush by using tunnels and trenches, cannot break through his encirclement at all.

The next day, after repelling several tentative attacks by the Russian army, Liu Xian drew troops and began to march into the four cities of Gongchen and Xichun.

The rebellious Ili natives are completely finished. Last night, the Russian army's shooting and killing without distinguishing between each other perfectly solved the prisoner problem for Liu Xian. Now the expeditionary army is attacking the four cities of Gongchen and Xichun, which is completely ploughing the court and sweeping the holes.

Two cavalry brigades and two infantry battalion battalions [the second brigade was composed of Russian rifles captured on the battlefield], and the soldiers attacked in two directions, and by the afternoon of the fourth day, Liu Xian had received the good news of recovering the four cities.

As for whether the killing in the middle is heavy or light, Liu Xian doesn't ask at all. He just needs the nine cities of Ili to be taken back into his hands now. Among them, in Gongchen City, the troops also captured a considerable number of Russian baggage, and the ammunition in them was greatly replenished to Liu Xian.

Although the caliber of the rifle of the Russian army is slightly larger than that of the Enfield M1853 rifle. However, the current Minne bullets are also different from the bullets of the copper-shelled bullet period, which are so technical and completely handmade. It only needs to be disassembled, melted into a small bullet, and then repackaged, and it can be used on the Enfield M1853 rifle.

When the encircled Russian army sent troops to sweep Gongchen and other cities, the encircled Russian army launched three waves of attacks again, but one wave was weaker than the other, and the density of artillery fire also dropped to the lowest in history. Without armor or sufficient artillery firepower, even if machine guns are not yet widely used on the battlefield, the trench line is not pure infantry force, and it can be broken through by saying that it can be broken through.

However, Liu Xian was not in a hurry to launch a counteroffensive against the Russian camp, who knows whether the Russian army's appearance is true or false. On the bloody night before, thousands of indigenous rebels and Russian troops failed to impulse the positions of the Russian army, and the combat effectiveness of the Russian army in front of them was very strong.

After the war, the doctors and nurses brought back a total of 47 wounded and sick Russian soldiers from the pile of corpses, and now there are 43 left, and about 30 will survive in the end. And the point is that on the battlefield that night, the Russian soldiers who voluntarily chose to surrender - not even forty people.

However, the corpses of the Russian army were accommodated by the volunteers, but more than 500 remains.

Of course, there is the influence of the Russian army's 'white and human supremacy' doctrine, and there is the factor of the Russian soldiers' deep contempt for the Manchu Empire, and many Russian soldiers cannot accept that they surrender to a group of 'inferior people' and choose to die. But the tenacious fighting spirit of the Russian soldiers must not be denied. A fighting nation, Lao Maozi's character is very durable.

The news of Golpakovsky's defeat and siege spread as Gongchen and other four cities fell into the hands of the expeditionary army.

The Qihe Prefecture under the control of the Russian army was shocked, and they had just raised seven or eight hundred men with insufficient troops, and were about to enter Ili to support at the behest of Golpakovsky's order, when they heard the news of Golpakovsky's defeat. The seven or eight hundred Russian troops who were about to depart did not dare to move without permission. They immediately contacted Kaufman in Tashkent.

Kaufman was shocked that Golpakovsky was a soldier who had experienced the Crimean War, and his combat experience was second to none in the entire Turkestan Governorate. With 2,000 Russian troops under his command marching into Ili, Kaufman thought he would just have to wait for the news of the victory to arrive. I never thought that Liu Xian, who was attacking Ili, would defeat it.

Fortunately, Tashkent now has plenty of troops. Tens of thousands of Russian troops were transferred back from the Red Water Bay on the southeastern shore of the Caspian Sea, except for more than 3,000 who entered Kokand. In addition to Hudeya's support, the rest of the troops were all held in the palm of Kaufman's hand.

Kaufman quickly mobilized Army Major General Chernyaev and led 3,000 Russian troops from Tashkent to Ili on a rapid march. On the other hand, General Velevkin, who ordered Kokand, to lead his troops directly to Andijan.

Kaufman sent a telegram to St. Petersburg, asking the Tsar for permission to attack the southern frontier of the Qing Empire in Andijan. and begged the tsar to transfer 5,000 troops from Orenburg into Tashkent.

The Turkestan Governorate was too large and its troops were really insufficient, so with 5,000 supports, he could concentrate most of his troops to attack Xinjiang.

Fifteen thousand! Kaufman assured the tsar that with only 15,000 men and a year, he would be able to give Xinjiang to St. Petersburg first.

Tsarist Russia in 1869 was not just the end of the 70s when another Russo-Turkish war had been fought, and the Narodnik people were rampant in the country, repeatedly planning to assassinate Tsar Alexander II, so that the situation was shocking, so that the upper echelons of Tsarist Russia had no energy to look outward.

The news reached St. Petersburg that Alexander II did not go to see his mistress this time, but was holding a grand banquet in the summer palace.

After receiving Kaufman's message, Alexander II's Imperial Council was convened again urgently.

First, the tsar granted the request of the Orenburg Governorate to transfer five thousand troops to the Turkestan Governorate. But he couldn't make up his mind about whether to start a nationwide raid.

The annexation of the whole territory was, of course, the ultimate goal of Tsarist Russia. But Russia also needed to take into account the Qing Empire's reaction. Look at the map of the Qing Empire, as soon as Xinjiang is removed, Tibet, Mongolia, Gansu, Qinghai, and the hinterland are completely exposed to the Russian army. It is difficult to estimate how the Qing Empire will react.

"Your Majesty, I believe every word in Kaufman's message. Perhaps in less than a year, Xinjiang will become another Russian governorate. But do not forget about Europe, which is the root of Russia. The contradictions between Prussia and France became more and more acute, because of the entanglement of the Spanish throne, because of the greed of Napoleon III, there was bound to be a great war between the two countries.

Russia does not have the energy to pay attention to Xinjiang, and the war between France and France is what Russia needs to pay the most attention to in the coming period. ”

Alexander, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Empire from the end of the Crimean War. Mikhailovich. Gorchakov, so said to Alexander II.

The man in his seventies was the most outstanding diplomat in the history of the Russian Empire. The fourteen-year career as a foreign minister also gave the old man a prestige within the Russian Empire.

But no matter how traitorous Cao Cao is, he has close friends, and no matter how good Liu Bei is, he also has enemies. "The dignity of the Russian Empire cannot be trampled on." As soon as Gorchakov's words fell, a man was already standing.

It's just that Gorchakov was not angry at all because of this sentence. "Yes, the dignity of the empire cannot be trampled on. Since the war has already started in Ili, take Ili. Then, what you want, the diplomats of the empire will get it from Beijing for you. We only need words, no cannons, and no distraction from our limited energy. ”

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The old Turghut West Road Banner, the old Turghut East Road Second Flag. Crossing the mountains, the Mongol princes offered their sincerity to Liu Xian.

Hundreds of horses, and a thousand Mongol cavalrymen with swords on horseback.

Although because of Dolonga's serious injury, the many armies that had just pacified the Ganxi Tyranny* did not immediately march towards Balikun and Hami, but now everyone in Xinjiang knows that the tail of the rabbit will not grow.

When many armies attacked to the west, and when Liu Xian attacked to the east and north, the Tuming regime was absolutely dead or alive. They were facing enemies on all sides, and although the Mongols in Ussuriyatai in the north were not capable of attacking south, it was still possible to stop the lost dog from fleeing north.

At present, the Tuming regime, which has not suffered any major obstacles or blows, and the Tuming regime, which still has more than 20,000 troops, is already a turtle in an urn in the eyes of countless Xinjiang natives, and there is no way out.

That's how quickly things turn. Liu Xian was still only messing around in Ili, and the Russian army had not yet been cleaned up, so the Turks came to the door by themselves.

After accepting this generous gift from the Turks, Liu Xian hoarded troops and horses and began to deal with the besieged Golpakovsky.

He knew very well that with the roughness of Lao Maozi, he would definitely not be able to swallow this breath. There has never been news of the Russian army's move in southern Xinjiang, although the Russian army suddenly forced to Andijan, which scared Dong Jun and Abduli up and down, but if they didn't do it, they didn't do it.

It can be seen that the Russian army still does not want or their superiors are unwilling to fight with the Qing Empire at this time. In Liu Xian's memory, the Franco-Prussian War began next year, and the emergence and fall of the Paris Commune caused a sensation throughout Europe and the United States.

If Lao Maozi really had the foresight, he really shouldn't have fought a battle with the Manchus in Central Asia now.

But the Russian army will definitely increase its troops in Ili, which Liu Xian dares to bet with others with his head.

It is logical that before the arrival of new reinforcements from the Russian army, it will become the first priority to solve the current force.

Liu Xian did not know when the Russian army would arrive in Ili. But the whole of Central Asia has become Tsarist Russia, and it is not easy for Lao Maozi to transfer troops?

Time passed slowly.

From the bloody battle that night to Liu Xian's army sweeping the four cities, to Yili and the fast horses in southern Xinjiang walking back and forth, and at the same time, the volunteer battalion swept the entire Ili and wiped out half of the Ili natives, and then Liu Xian reorganized his troops and began to start to do away with the besieged Russian army. At this time, the Russian army had been surrounded for more than ten days.

There is no way, China is lagging behind. Unlike the Russians, although they are backward compared with Britain, France, Germany and the United States, they have entered the era of industrial civilization. Telegraph communication, from Tashkent to St. Petersburg, a telegram with a translator, only an hour. R1152