Poland was not the only hidden danger in Russia, but the Tsar was more troubled by the mountain people living in the Caucasus, the Siberian tribes and the Cossacks.

The Cossacks have been attached to Tsarist Russia since 1654. "Cossack" comes from the Turkic word meaning "free man" or "raider", and was initially worshipped and revered by the Russians.

Although they are from humble backgrounds, they yearn for freedom and are unwilling to give in.

The rise of the Cossacks was a great threat to the south of Russia, when Alexei I pursued a policy of gentleness. Corrupting the top with religion and money to make it work for its own use.

However, the Cossacks played little role in frontal large-scale battles, and did not show their talent for evil.

At the same time, these herders are a double-edged sword that cannot be dropped. The Cossacks obeyed only the leaders of their own tribes, and often quarreled over disobedience to the Russians' commands, even to the point of killing the messenger.

Capriciousness is also their main characteristic. Successive tsars strengthened their control over the Cossack tribes, such as depriving the atamans (chiefs) of democratic suffrage, prohibiting them from accepting freemen, and forcibly relocating some Cossacks to other places

The main means used was to maintain a delicate balance between dispersing and depleting its forces in order to involve it in the conquest of Siberia.

The Cossacks were better at hunting and plundering than on frontal combat, and for hundreds of years, the indigenous people of Siberia suffered terrible exterminations.

During the Napoleonic Wars, the Cossack regiments began to have a regular formation, which was also a matter of no choice, after all, Russia was already at a disadvantage at that time, and it was necessary to mobilize all the forces at its disposal.

But the Cossacks were still distinguished from the Russian army and were still based on tribal communities. Until Nicholas I came to power, the Cossacks were forcibly incorporated into military districts.

In the second year of Nicholas I's reign, he invited the Cossack chiefs around the Don to St. Petersburg to receive a reward. This was a Russian tradition, and every new tsar would use it to entrap the Cossacks.

But about a third of the Cossack leaders were not present, and in fact, everyone had already known about this.

Those who were not present were the leaders of some powerful tribes, the largest of which numbered 5,000 soldiers alone.

Together, these tribes are more than 100,000 people, and they are definitely a force to be reckoned with in the steppes of South Russia. Even if the tsar was angry, he could only change the situation by persuading him with good words and increasing the reward for all Cossack tribes.

Every tsar wanted to weaken the Cossacks, and this group of freedom-loving people naturally could not be slaughtered by them. So he came up with this method to embarrass the Tsar and not to ignore their existence.

It's just that they waited not for messengers with gifts, but for the cavalry of Nicholas I. With a force of 40,000 men, the Russian army attacked the most powerful Cossack tribe in the Don Valley.

The Cossacks were also known as "cannibals" in Siberia, but they were as pitiful and helpless as the natives they slaughtered in the face of the real war machine.

The slaughtered tribe quickly disappeared into history, and the heads of the chief and his male heir were sent to St. Petersburg.

And the slaughter did not stop, and after the extermination of the first tribe, the tsar's guards cavalry rushed to the second tribe without stopping.

After the reforms of Peter I in Russia, it was not allowed to take credit by cutting off the ears and cutting off the heads. And the "leaders" of the Guards cavalry wanted to show off their exploits, so they could only do so by building landscapes.

As a result, a large number of corpses were piled up together to create a variety of landscapes. Now it is only a prototype, and only after the wolf and the goshawk eat and wipe the flesh from the corpse can the true face of the "work" be seen.

As more and more heads of Cossack tribal leaders were sent to St. Petersburg for exhibition, a Cossack leader named "Migo" jumped out to accuse the Tsar of the tyranny and called on all Cossacks to unite against this evil tyrant.

However, no one responded to Migo's call, and the young Cossack leader was soon arrested and sent to Nicholas I.

Faced with Nicholas I, who was two meters and five meters tall and strong, even the unruly goshawks on the steppe showed fear.

The Tsar drew Migo's scimitar and broke it with his bare hands in front of him.

(Nicholas I was said to have great strength, and one of his greatest hobbies was breaking people's swords.) As for why it's not a sword? Because he packed up basically Cossacks and Tatars. ）

"Your Great Tsar, I am willing to kiss your boots and be your most faithful servant." Migo knew that he could not defeat the man in front of him, and although Nicholas I had just become Tsar, he had heard such an oath at the side of Pressure Mountain I I don't know how many times.

Nicholas I did not speak, but just patted Migo on the shoulder, then picked up the broken knife from the ground and cut off the other's head with the knife little by little.

The Russian military attachés and Cossack chiefs around them watched silently, except for the sound of knives cutting flesh and blood splattering.

After that, every year something similar was repeated, and the Cossacks at that time had a song.

Over the Volga, over the Kama River,

The free Cossacks were immortalized.

The great chiefs whispered to their companions,

Cossacks, my compatriots,

Where is our shelter from summer to winter?

Is it to huddle in Volga, like a thief who can't see the light of day?

Or a raid on Kazan, arguing with the tsar?

But the tsar sent 40,000 troops, how can we parry?

We have to find another way, another way,

Come with me, brothers,

Let's advance towards Siberia.

However, the tsar did not stop at the South Russian steppes, but gradually strengthened his control over the Cossacks, and any tribe that dared to resist was exterminated.

The ataman system was eventually abolished under the strong hand of Nicholas I, after which Russia divided the Cossacks into military districts, and by 1837 Russia had established ten Cossack military districts, which marked a new height of St. Petersburg's control over the Cossacks.

At that time, Nicholas I believed that "the Cossacks were a pack of hungry wolves, and there was no such thing as loyalty, and as soon as Russia weakened, they were probably the first to rise up and join the rebels." ”

So Russia needs to remain strong all the time, and so does the rebellion in the Caucasus.

The Chechens, Georgians, Dagstanis, and Ingush of the Caucasus Mountains were not easy peoples to conquer, and historically they fought against each other from the early nineteenth century until the fall of the Russian giant in Crimea.

Successive Caucasian governors were ruthless, and from the first governor, Alexei Yermolov, the principle of combat was established: the enemy and the rebels could be executed on the spot without trial; The families of the enemy also sat together, leaving no room to live; Local women may be abducted at will or used as booty.

In later Anglo-American propaganda, Yermolov was an out-and-out executioner, and even burned millions of acres of forest in order to eliminate the local partisans.

He said this in a letter to Tsar Nicholas I.

"I just want my command to be more feared by the locals than the call of death...... In the eyes of Asians, kindness is cowardice. Don't say I'm inhumane, I'm really humane when I do it: every execution of the Caucasians means that hundreds of Russians are spared death, and it also means that thousands of barbarians dare not defect......

I am a Russian soldier, and humanity to Russians is truly humane. ”

Although Nicholas I later removed him from his post and recalled him to St. Petersburg, Yermolov's successors continued his policy.

It was not until a governor named Yuskinv Petrovich came to power, when the situation in the Caucasus had eased, that he took the opposite measure of his predecessors, ordering the soldiers to treat the locals as if they were family.

The governor plans to build hospitals, schools, churches, and a cannery to solve local employment problems.

Then the Caucasus broke out in the worst rebellion in history, and the Chechens returned to the Russians what they had done before.

Hostages were killed, old and weak women and children were slaughtered, and villages were razed to the ground.

The naïve governor and his family were beaten for a week and then broken into thousands of pieces for food.

Compared to the fierce peoples of the Cossacks and the Caucasus, the Siberian natives were very mild, and they did not want revenge but only wanted to take back their land.

Other diseases such as the Decembrists, the Apostolic Order, and so on, were not scabies, and the most terrible enemy of Russia in the eyes of Franz, which Nicholas I did not recognize, was the pro-British faction within Russia.

These people are blind to the interests of Russia, trying to curry favor with Britain in order to achieve the goal of hegemony, that is, the so-called world hegemony, which is simply whimsical.

It was this group of people who historically destroyed Russia's centuries-old dominance and the momentum it had gained after the Napoleonic Wars, and the Crimean War that took the country in the other direction.

Although Austria and Russia have many contradictions, and even often calculate each other, the latter is in the way, and the former can have a lot more time to develop, which is very important for Austria.

(A lot of dialogue has been deleted, and in case you talk about my water word count, there are two more poems written in the writer's words.) In addition, these words are not counted as money, so I deliberately pinched them. ）

Thanks to the book friend Lu Jiechuan, the strongest kindergarten class in the dimension, the joint command, glll, Tang Seng shampooed his hair with Rejoicing 00, and the end of the zodiac for the reward

It is stated that this book has nothing to do with the real universe and is a parallel universe. The views expressed in the book do not represent personal opinions, so please do not sit in the opposite seat.

"Captive of the Caucasus" Pushkin

When the eagle of Russia,

flying from the top of a Caucasus mountain;

When the drums of war in Russia,

beating bloody drums;

Can I sing for this glorious moment?

Sing for you, heroes I revere,

Your footprints have traveled to all corners of the tribe......

Thou art the proud son of the Caucasian,

In front of you, the Russian butcher's knife is also bent over.

In the shadow of the sword and sword, you are more and more courageous,

But the armor that shines like the sun and the moon,

A mount that gallops on the battlefield,

The mountains that gave birth to you and nurtured you,

And the freedom you love,

Neither from the hand of death,

Take you back.

Chechen Folk Songs

Wake up, my warrior,

Wake up your family, wake up your wife,

Finish your morning prayer quickly,

The village is besieged.

A cold forest of guns,

A bright and sparkling knife net,

A bloody wall of corpses,

The executioner ordered,

Old, weak, women and children, not a single one remains.

All of a sudden,

The dead bodies are stacked on top of each other, the sun and the moon are eclipsed,

Open the "XX Sutra",

Sing a prayer of death,

My warriors, at this moment,

Your soul will ascend to heaven.

The infidels will never be able to keep up with you,

XX will embrace you in your arms,

Forever from suffering......

Every blade of grass, every stone,

All remember the misery and the fury of this land,

Thy blood stains the sword of the enemy,

and stained the land red,

I can't see the child's eyes full of tears,

In front of the mother's corpse,

Wailing and weeping,

You're in luck.

(End of chapter)