When Tan Shaoguang received the news of the capture of Nebuchu City, he had already led a large army across the Chita River, and the army was marching with difficulty in the cold wind, but fortunately, they were about to complete the complete encirclement of Chita.

Chita, located west of Nebuchu, at the confluence of the Chita and Ingoda rivers, was founded in 1825 as a camp for the Cossacks on the Far East, and after more than 30 years of development it became the center of Transbaikalia. It was also one of the places of exile for those who opposed the Tsarist rulers, and more than 120 Decembrists were exiled here after the failure of the Decembrists in 1825.

Stopping on the bank of the Chita River, Tan Shaoguang handed over the battle report in his hand to the two generals beside him to watch, both of whom were the generals of the original North Palace, one was Zhang Chunxian, the former inspector of the North Palace, and the other was Liu Naixin, a strategist of the North Temple. The two of them, like most of the other soldiers of the Northern Temple, came to the Northeast after a painful and unforgettable battle, a state of mind that bordered on self-exile, and they both decided that they did not want to return to the South for the rest of their lives, because there were people and things they did not want to see.

After reading the battle report, Liu Naixin said lightly: "Tan Shuai, it seems that the plan is very smooth, we should also easily capture Chita, and then the whole army will enter the city as soon as possible for the winter." ”

Tan Shaoguang looked at Chita City from afar, and slowly asked, "Mr. Liu, do you know the Decembrists in Tsarist Russia?" ”

Liu Naixin was slightly stunned and replied: "Of course I know, I have been fighting with the Russians in the past few years, and I must know myself and my opponent." I can win every battle, so I've heard about it. Chita was the place of exile for the Russian Decembrists, most of whom are now old and dead. But I still admire their behavior, they are a group of idealistic rebels. ”

Tan Shaoguang nodded and said, "I'm thinking about the Decembrists in Russia, thinking about their wives, they are really a group of noble women. After the failure of the Decembrist uprising, they were exiled to Siberia by the Tsar, and their wives were faced with two choices: to disown their husbands and remain as aristocrats in Petersburg. Either they were deprived of their nobility and accompanied their husbands to Siberia for hard labor. These noble, effeminate women showed great courage. resolutely chose the latter. The Decembrists and their wives came to Siberia and first built churches and introduced Orthodoxy here. This is their faith, their spiritual home. The first Muk-style church built by the Decembrists in Chita is still intact today. They planned and built the city here, and became the earliest city builders and pioneers in Chita. Chita is their homeland, and I wonder if they are against the Tsar, so what will happen to their descendants? ”

Liu Naixin shook his head and said, "Tan Shuai, I know what you mean. You're trying to take advantage of this to defeat them without a fight, but in the eyes of the Chita people, we're just a bunch of bandits invading their homeland. Don't forget, Chita was also a camp for the Cossacks. There are also countless criminals who have been exiled from within Russia. ”

Tan Shaoguang retracted his gaze, turned his head and smiled and said, "It's my whim, we are now invaders and not liberators." Then he asked in a low tone, "Mr. Liu." When I think of the Decembrists, I think of you. Do you really not want to go back to the South? ”

Liu Naixin and Zhang Chunxian glanced at each other, and their eyes were full of bitterness and pain. Liu Naixin sighed and said: "The souls of tens of thousands of people in the Heavenly King's Mansion are still asking for their lives in mid-air, our killing is too heavy, and never going back is a relief." Tan Shaoguang wanted to comfort him when he heard this, but he didn't know how to speak, and after the three of them were silent for a while, Tan Shaoguang said: "Tell the soldiers the news of Nebuchu, let everyone cheer up, and strive to spend the night in Chita tonight!" ”

Chita is the camp of the Cossacks in the Far East, the history has been a long time, and it is still today, but Tan Shaoguang annihilated 30,000 Cossack cavalry, and the vanguard cavalry unit of the Taiping Army who arrived in advance held the Cossack cavalry flag high on the wooden pole, and the bearskin military caps of the Cossack cavalry were put on top of the horse pistols by them.

At this time, Chita also had a Russian army stationed there, the Tsar gave the name Kassack troops, and the officers and above were Cossacks, but the soldiers were composed of exiled criminals, who were only in the nature of a militia under the harsh natural conditions, and they could only protect themselves.

Chita is not a castle fortress in the full sense at the moment, the wooden walls around it are only two people high, when they saw tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers driving here, the soldiers and civilians of Chita cried, they knew the fate of the city after the break, just like what their compatriots and families would do after breaking through the Chinese village, waiting for them must be ruthless killing revenge! This is the survival criterion of Siberia, kill the foreigners, and your own people can survive better.

When the artillery of the Taiping Army set up their positions, it was already noon, which was the highest temperature of the day, and the artillerymen still had to light a bonfire next to the cannon to raise the temperature, so as not to let the muzzle of the cannon be condensed by water vapor, resulting in the explosion of the bore.

There was no persuasion to surrender, no hint of war, the whistling of cannons was the signal for war, the wooden walls of Chita melted and collapsed in the heat of the cannonballs, and the first Muk-style church built by the Decembrists in Chita was destroyed by the fire. Far Eastern Siberia, the most humanistic city of Eastern Europe founded by the Decembrists, was destroyed by artillery fire, and Chita failed to fulfill its historical mission in later history, and it could no longer spread the humanistic atmosphere of Tsarist Russia and Eastern Europe to the rest of Siberia, because its owners became Taiping soldiers.

There was no suspense in the battle, and the Kazak garrison of more than 3,000 people was completely annihilated, and they died fighting to protect their wives, children, and homes, and no one surrendered. The pain they had inflicted on other ethnic groups in Siberia had fallen on them, and tens of thousands of civilians in the city had fallen under the guns and bayonets of the Taiping army, from the elderly to the children.

Unlike Nebuchu, there were a large number of Cossacks here, and for the ferocious bandits, it was best to completely eliminate them, not to mention that any war of conquest was never clean. The Taiping army chose to kill, they had no choice, to make this land completely become the territory of the kingdom of heaven, they had to clear those people, and then their immigrants from the interior could better survive in this land!

The Russian double-headed eagle banner has been trampled under its feet, replaced by a red background and a golden dragon flag, Tan Shaoguang stood on the blood-stained square in Chita City, looked at the raised national flag and shouted to a group of Northeast Army generals: "Remember, you are pioneers and conquerors, for the sake of future generations, you cannot have mercy, you cannot have mercy, you can not have mercy, all you need to do is to conquer!" From the moment our red dragon banner is raised anywhere in the land, you are obliged to ensure that it will not be lowered again! That's right, even when our golden dragon flag is raised, it will never be lowered! ”

The same thing happened in Nebuchu, where Liu Mingchuan left only those miners who could work, and the rest were wiped out. In fact, the Northeast Army has also done this when the Northeast has cleared the Russian settlements along the Heilongjiang River in the northeast over the years, they are just taking revenge, and what they have done is no different from what the Russians have done before.

After the brutal Russians were driven out, the Taiping army began to cooperate with various local tribes, including the Yakuts, Evenks, Oroqen, Nivkh, Udgai, and other ethnic groups. The Taiping army protected them, traded with them, and supported them economically, and as long as they raised the flag of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and became the subjects of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, they could be rewarded with protection and trade. The Taiping army did this for several years, so the tribes were united, and more than ten years later, they all became members of the ethnic minorities of the Heavenly Kingdom, which directly led to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom having more than a dozen ethnic groups than the great kingdom of later generations.

The Russians were eventually driven out of the land, and this absolute purge continued a year later, when the Russians could no longer support a separate peace with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the Far East, and the Taiping army stopped the purge and replaced it with an expulsion. Tens of thousands of Russians were driven out of Siberia and returned to the west of Lake Baikal along the same route they had taken from Eastern Europe. But there were some who remained, and they became another heavenly minority, ethnic Russians.

After the Russian military forces in Chita and other places were wiped out, the cavalry regiment of Chen Yucheng and the Mongolian tribal warriors on the Mongolian plateau formed a powerful patrol force to drive away the robbers on the Mongolian plateau, and the Russian power was gradually eliminated in the following year. With the end of Tan Shaoguang and Chen Yucheng's joint military campaign to sweep the north, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom established the Northern Xinjiang Military Region in northern Xinjiang, and established several large administrative regions such as Beihai (i.e., Baikal) County, Trans-Xinganling County, and Lingbei County, and a large number of immigrants migrated here. Later, Chita was renamed Weiqing City, and Nebuchu City was renamed Huoqu Sick City, and these two places became the centers for the spread of Chinese civilization to the wild Siberia.

Of course, the last battle of the Russians in the Far East was not in Chita, but in the farther ice city of Yakutsk, but now that the northeast has entered a harsh winter, both sides have chosen to temporarily rest and wait for the beginning of spring next year. There are various reasons for the failure of the Russian land offensive, but the biggest reason is its own internal instability, Tsar Alexander II's incomplete reform of serfdom slowed down the reform of Russia, just three years after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom annexed the Far East, Tsarist Russia had more than 2,000 domestic serf uprisings, resulting in the complete loss of the Far East in Russia. Later historians have studied this period of history by saying that Russia spent three years emancipating its serfs, but lost the Far East forever because of these three years of wasted time...... (To be continued......)