Chapter 266 Russia's Plan
Just when Heshen was about to send troops to encircle and suppress these White Lotus religious believers, Catherine II, who was far away in Petersburg, was preparing to sign his own name on the long-prepared combat plan for invading Manchuria, the Western Regions and Mongolia.
"Dear, do you really make sure we can take these places smoothly?" Catherine II asked Jin to her lover Bo.
Caterina II is indeed an extraordinary woman. Her husband Peter III grew up in Germany and only speaks German. He always thinks he is German and looks down on Russians and Russian culture very much. But Caterina II happened to be the opposite of him. In order to make himself Russian, he not only converted to Orthodox religion, but also studied Russians and Russian culture hard, and even suffered from pneumonia and almost died of pneumonia. The Russians admired and loved her very much, which also made the Russians very supportive of the coup she launched.
But after all, she was an outsider and a woman. In order to stabilize her rule, she not only appointed ministers, but also constantly searched for lovers to be her confidants, and allowed her lovers to hold important positions in the army and government, so that they could immerse themselves in the fire of love and fight for themselves.
"Your Majesty, the most important part of the Qing Dynasty is in their south, and the country called Ming Dynasty has now occupied it, and the Qing Dynasty's army has also suffered great losses. Their nobles, that is, the bannermen, have lost hundreds of thousands. Moreover, they have not deployed much troops in the Western Regions, the border areas between Mongolia and Manchuria, so it is easy for us to occupy it." Po Jiangjin said.
"But I don't want the Qing Dynasty to lose a large tract. In this way, will the Ming Dynasty in the south quickly gain the rule of China? According to intelligence, the Ming Dynasty's army is very strong and very hostile to Russia. The diplomatic missions I sent were refused to be received by them many times, and their emperor has issued a trade ban to prohibit Ming merchants from trading with us Russia. It is really distressing. If we weaken the Qing Dynasty too much, will the Ming Dynasty make a big deal and threaten our Siberia?" asked Catherine II.
"Your Majesty, the Ming army is only relative to the Qing army. They have no strength to fight against our great Russia at all." Pojiangjin said proudly. In his opinion, the gray animals in Russia are the most powerful army in the world, and the Russian Cossack cavalry are even more powerful. No one in this world can defeat the Russian army.
"So, how should we deal with this Ming Kingdom?" asked Catherine II again.
"We can let the Qing Dynasty seize some land for us. At the same time, we must support the remaining Qing Dynasty, send troops, and take the initiative to fight with the Ming Dynasty's army, so that they can know our strength, and then maintain the situation of splitting the summer, so that we can benefit us." Bo Jiangjin said.
"Then you do it! I believe that your little horse will definitely win!" said Catherine II.
Po Jiangjin went to do business, but Caterina II found her other lover Zu Berlin. Zu Berlin was still a young man in his twenties, but he started playing with Caterina II, who was already in his fifties.
Just as Poejin left Petersburg and went to the Far East to lead 20,000 Russian troops and thousands of Cossack cavalry to occupy the land of the Qing Dynasty, Dolinga was also leading the recently trained 50,000 new troops to Hubei and Sichuan to suppress bandits.
At this time, Liu Zhixie had gathered tens of thousands of people. He was proud and thought he had really become a genius military strategist, so he took these tens of thousands of armed peasants with dung forks and spears to Xiangfan City, hoping to break through here in one fell swoop and establish his dynasty.
Although Xiangfan City has a tall city wall, Liu Zhixie sent people to see it before, and there were not many defenders there, so he was confident of taking down the city.
But to his surprise, when he besieged Xiangfan today, all the people in the city came up to defend the city. These guys, regardless of women, young or strong men, came up to the city to fight to the death with Liu Zhixie's people.
They were the Eight Banners stationed abroad. After the Qing Dynasty pacified the world, they scattered the lower five banners across the country to guard important cities and build a city to defend, while the upper three banners stationed in the imperial capital to protect the emperor.
These Eight Banners must live and die together with the city. Once the city is captured, these Eight Banners soldiers must commit suicide in order to break their jade and will never surrender.
Liu Zhixie led tens of thousands of armed farmers to attack the city walls in various ways, but they don’t even have a ladder now, so what can they use to attack the city?
After no choice, Liu Zhixie had to evacuate Xiangfan and instead attacked the rural areas near Xiangfan, carrying these people to attack other cities.
Wang Cong'er and Qi Lin became smarter. At the beginning, their believers had only more than 4,000 people. In order to gain a larger team, they attacked everywhere, wrapped around the surrounding villages, forcing them to hand over all their property, and then destroyed their homes and followed them to another place.
Although Wang Cong'er was a little unwilling, Qi Lin still followed the advice of Liu Guangde, who was born in the Jinyiwei, and fought everywhere, destroying the surrounding villages, like cancer cells, constantly destroying the Qing Dynasty's body, causing their internal blood to flow away.
In the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty was dealt with by thieves in a way of fighting everywhere, and eventually died of blood. Now, the effect of dealing with the Qing Dynasty in this way should be equally obvious.
Although the Qing Dynasty was a very cruel regime, even the so-called benevolent monarchs like Daoguang and Jiaqing were also very cautious about the Han people. During the Sichuan-Chu Bailian Sect Uprising and the Tianli Sect Uprising in history, they massacred them, but they could not kill all of these Han people because they still needed to provide taxes.
On October 10, Dolinga had already led a large army to Taiyuan. Many of these new troops were yellow belts and red belts, so the speed of traveling was naturally impossible.
"These people want to conquer Xiangfan? Hahaha, it's really whimsical. Xiangfan is a strong city. How can they have such skills?" Duolinga looked at the report and laughed.
"Haha, Grandmaster, how could these people compare with our Eight Banners Power?" Fengshen Yin De also followed Duolinga and said with a smile.
Duolinga knew what Heshen meant. In addition to asking him to train Fengshen Yinde, he was to let Fengshen Yinde look at him in case of any evil actions. Therefore, he said: "We still can't drag it down. If these thieves did not conquer Xiangfan, they would inevitably run around. We must find their heads and strike heads to the end, and we can finally eliminate them."
Chapter completed!