At the same time that the matter of the Mongolian lark came to an end, the long-awaited supply army finally arrived.

The air from Siberia was exceptionally fresh, and on July 23, the third year of Hongguang, Zhou Huchen led the army to the north.

This is a real coalition army, in addition to Zhou Huchen's more than 100,000 troops, including more than 30,000 Mongol troops in Monan, 6,000 Mongol troops in Moxi, and 9,000 Mongol troops in Mobei, this is the territory of Gunbu Dorji, plus that special relationship, only the Tushetu tribe dispatched 7,000 cavalry. Let the whole army be 200,000.

And in the cavalry team all over the field, there are many special existences, these people are wearing long maroon monks' robes, and they are hundreds of lamas.

The leader is none other than the Geshe who negotiated with Zhou Huchen, a good knowledge named Zhelang who is now very familiar with Zhou Huchen, and there is another person next to this great lama who is also very eye-catching, this person named Chahun Dorji, the son of Tushetu Khan Gunbu and the eldest brother of Mo Yanhua.

"The territory north of Khalkha belongs to the Buryat Mongols, and these tribes mainly believe in shamans, so I want to bring them the glory of the Buddha."

Zhelang has his purpose in the army, it seems that he wants to use religion to infiltrate, but in fact, he is also helping Mo Yanhua, because Mo Yanhua is the brother-in-law of the living Buddha.

"Master, your arrival is very welcome, but will this conflict with the local shaman? Will the Buryats be able to accept it? ”

Zhou Huchen was curious, because he knew that the poorer the people, the more difficult it was to change their religious beliefs, and it was difficult for the people to accept the new religion in a vast area where shamans were practiced.

"Buryat Mongolia is a branch of Erut Mongolia, just because of the distance, these people have less contact with the same race, Buryat Mongolians worship the Buddha many believers, there is the help of the handsome. It is not difficult to get the whole of Buryat Mongolia to accept the glory of the Buddha. Grand Lama Zhelang was full of confidence, and he showed a yearning expression.

"I see!" Grand Lama Zhelang went north this time and opened a sect, religion and soldiers seem to be the most effective method of conquest, and the lama is not at ease! However, this is very beneficial to himself, Zhou Huchen nodded in approval.

At this time, Chahun Dorji spoke, as the successor of the Tushetu Khan, he still knew something about the surroundings: "The marshal doesn't know, in fact, the Buryat Mongols have always had contacts with our Khalkha, and these Buryat Mongols all speak Mongolian. There is often a trade in furs, their mink is very good, the Buryats are also very trustworthy, and our people are very willing to trade with them. According to some hunters, some tribes of Buryatia in western Mongolia are fighting with some high-nosed alien races. ”

"The scramble has begun," Zhou Huchen fell into deep thought.

In the memory of Zhou Huchen, Siberia should have been the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Turkic, etc., and before the Ming Dynasty, it definitely belonged to the territory of the Yuan Dynasty. Later it belonged to the tile spur.

Tsarist Russia should still be relatively weak, and the territory of this future predator, the polar bear that has been pressing on the head of China for a long time, is now very limited. Tsarist Russia had just formed a unified centralized state, and its territory was small and located in the corner of northeastern Europe. And it's far from Siberia.

The timing was good, and Zhou Huchen came at a good time, as Tsarist Russia had just begun to expand eastward, and then gradually annexed large swaths of Siberia and the Far East over the centuries. Expand your territory to the shores of the Pacific Ocean.

In the process of Tsarist Russia's expansion to the east, the first obstacle it encountered was the Siberian Khanate, which bordered Russia.

The Siberian Khanate, also known as the Obir Khanate, was a branch of the former Golden Horde. It was a nomadic feudal state in northwestern Khalkha with its capital at Chengji-Tula (near present-day Tyumen), and this khanate was probably located in the middle reaches of the Ob River east of the Ural Mountains. At the beginning of the 16th century, he moved to the city of Kashrek (also known as the city of Ishkel, or the city of Siberia. Located near Tobolsk). It occupies a vast area between the Tobol, Irtysh and Ob rivers. The west was connected to the fiefdoms of the Stroganov family, the great feudal lords of Russia.

The Siberian Khanate was located on the land trade routes between Europe and Asia, and the border between the Siberian Khanate and Tsarist Russia was the Ural Mountains, which was also the boundary between Europe and Asia. The Ural Mountains stretch for more than 4,000 miles from the bay of the Kara Sea in the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Kazakh steppe in the south, just between the East European Plain and the Siberian Plain, and are a natural barrier.

In the middle of the XVI century, the tsar summoned the Stroganovs, who were adjacent to the Siberian Khanate, to inquire about the situation on the border and authorized them to resist the Siberian Khanate. They were ordered to build fortifications near the Siberian Khanate, recruit troops, buy weapons, and wait for an opportunity to invade the Siberian Khanate. Soon after, the tsar ordered the Stroganovs to build cities on the eastern side of the Urals - the Ob River and its tributaries Tula, Tobol and Irtysh rivers - and thus Russia extended their shili directly into the territory of the Siberian Khanate.

Adhering to the tsar's will, the Stroganno family repeatedly invaded the Siberian Khanate, and there were fierce conflicts with the Siberian Khanate. At the end of the 16th century, the Stroganovs sent people to contact Yermak, the Cossack leader who had been severely punished by the Tsar, and encouraged him to join him in the conquest of the Siberian Khanate and serve the Tsar's colonization of the territory.

In this way, the Russian army advanced along the waterway, passed through the Chusovaya River, crossed the Ural Mountains, crossed the Serebryanka, Tagil, Tula, Tobol rivers, Zuihou invaded the Irtysh River, and captured Kashrek, the capital of the Siberian Khanate.

Yermak and his gang made a contribution to Russian expansion, and the tsarist government pardoned Yermak and others, commended them for their actions, and paid them a large salary. The Stroganovs were also encouraged and rewarded with two cities. The atrocities of aggression by the Tsarist Russian army aroused great indignation among the people of the Siberian Khanate, who fought hard to resist the Russian invaders and held out for more than 20 years. In 1598, the Russian army defeated Kuchum Khan, who died shortly after fleeing to the steppes. At this point, Tsarist Russia Zuihou conquered the Siberian Khanate. Its invasion Shili crossed the Ural Mountains, and Yermak's expedition opened the prelude to a large-scale Russian expansion into Siberia.

By the 30-40s of the 17th century, the invasion of Tsarist Russia had crossed the Yenisei River and reached the Lena River, the Chukotka Peninsula and the Sea of Okhotsk. After conquering the Siberian Khanate, Tsarist Russia sent heavy troops, built castles, and held military positions to consolidate the newly occupied areas. And use these strongholds as base camps to further penetrate the Barabin steppe. In order to occupy the middle and lower reaches of the Ob River, Tsarist Russia also moved to Peking University, successively destroyed the Emirate of Perem and the Emirate of Yepancha, and established the cities of Perem and Tulinsk here.

The northern part of the Ural Mountains and the lower Ob River region were historically called the regions of "Ugra" and "Bersola" in Russia. It has long been inhabited by the Samoyeds, Khantes and Chuds, who are famous for their aquaculture and fur industries, and the Russians have long coveted the wealth here. After the destruction of the Siberian Khanate, Tsarist Russia paved the way for the complete conquest of the lower Ob region. In 1593, after the victory over the Chites, the Russians established the city of Berezov on the site of the Khantic city of Sugmutvash, and continued to march on the Tazar River from this base, establishing the city of Mangajieya in 1601 in the lower reaches of the Talu River, which marked the basic occupation of the lower Ob River by Russia. At the same time, Tsarist Russia stepped up its advance to the upper reaches of the Ob River and established the city of Tomsk at the mouth of the Tom River. In this area, the Russian army fought fiercely against the local Mongols and Kyrgyz ethnic groups, and began to push into China's northwestern frontier.

From the beginning of the 17th century, Tsarist Russia continued to expand eastward, occupying the Yenisei region in the 20s. Tsarist Russia's eastward advance mainly relied on the great Siberian Stream, which followed the large rivers and streams that crisscrossed it, from one stream to another. The strip between two rivers and rivers in close proximity to each other is what the Russians call the "land and water route". In winter, you can wade through ice. "Even land and water" can shorten the distance by many times. By the beginning of the 30s of the 17th century, the Russians had occupied parts of the middle, lower and upper Yenisei rivers. During the colonization of the Cossacks, information about the Lena River was already heard. And got some information on the route to the Lena River. After occupying the two major river systems in Siberia, the Russian government also wanted to occupy the Lena River, the third largest river system. So they sent troops from Mangajiea in the north and Yeniseisk in the south to occupy the Lena River at the same time. The Cossack army crossed the Lena River valley mainly by the northern route of the Lower Tunguska River, the southern route of the Upper Tunguska River, and the ancient road often used by the ancient Evenkis. They plundered their goods up and down the river and established strongholds. Medium-Velyuysk, Niezhny Velyuysk and Verkhniy Velyuysk were established successively.

In the 11th year of Chongzhen's reign (1638), the Russian government ordered the establishment of the Yakutsk Governor's Office, and forcibly incorporated a large area of land in the Lena River region into the Russian territory. Originally built on the right bank of the Lena River, Yakutsk was relocated to the left bank of the river in 1643 by order of the Overseer Golovin, and has since become the command center for further Russian expeditions into Northeast Asia.

The Khanate of Siberia is now gone, and it was the constant invasions of Tsarist Russia that brought the nomadic state to ruin. The disappearance of the Siberian Khanate also allowed the ambitious Tsarist Russia to enter Siberia and the greedy and weak Tsarist Russia on its way to the mighty polar bear.

Zhou Huchen suddenly realized that what he was thinking was too simple.

There is no problem in defeating Tsarist Russia, which invaded Siberia, the question is how long will its own military supplies be able to hold out? How to control the recaptured land? How to defend against the invasion of Tsarist Russia in the centuries that followed? Siberia is a treasure waiting to be discovered, and its stored resources can only be described as endless, and it can be said that without the rich reserves of Siberia, there would be no later powerful polar bears...... (To be continued......)