Dominate the Country

In the mysterious war of Bo Yun, the changes in the situation are like the direction of the wind on the sea, which people can never figure out.

On the banks of the Volga River, the Chinese defenders of Turinsk were enduring the fierce offensive and heavy blows of the Russian army. However, thousands of miles away in the Vladikavkaz Fortress, the Chinese army firmly surrounded this huge fortress. The 6,000 Russian soldiers and more than 3,000 Russian young adults inside have been surrounded for more than two months.

The dignity of Russia was trampled and insulted by the Chinese in front of the military and civilians of the principalities in the Caucasus.

The military and civilians of the Principality of Baku and the military and civilians of the Kingdom of Persia are already helping the Chinese unscrupulously. This is the most direct manifestation.

General Kirilenko, who was stationed in this fortress, looked at the soldiers and civilians dressed in Persian style, and his eyes wanted to spit out fire to burn them to death.

This is so abominable!

Do Baku and Persia think that with the presence of the Chinese, the Russian Empire will be unable to reach them or defeat them?

Kirilenko had countless images of Russia ravaging Persia in his mind, but it was a pity that he could only have this leisurely elegance during the day. At night, the Chinese sneak attacks and attacks put great pressure on the Vladikavkaz Fortress. Now he is about to become a night owl who only sleeps during the day and works at night.

Only about 4,000 of the 6,000 Russian troops are left, and nearly half of the more than 3,000 Russian young men have been lost. Collapsed houses and fortresses can be seen everywhere within the fortress.

Alexander I led the army to advance towards Astrakhan, but he did not forget the Vladikavkaz Fortress. It was just that the troops sent by Alexander I were very few, and their task was not to completely solve the siege of Vladikavkaz Fortress. , but to contain the Chinese who surrounded the fortress until good news came from Astrakhan...

The Don Cossack leader - Count, Cavalry General Matvey Ivanovich Platov, led 8,000 Cossacks to the Vladikavkaz Fortress.

He wanted to give full play to the power of the Cossack cavalry, harass the Chinese troops outside the fortress, cut off their supply lines, and force the Chinese to use more troops to guard the transportation lines...

Therefore, without the knowledge of the besieged Kirilenko's troops, the Vladikavkaz Fortress was subjected to continuous attacks by the Chinese and was struggling to support itself. The cavalry team led by Platov was heading towards Vladikavkaz rushed to the rescue as quickly as possible.

Because the Chinese attack was so rapid and violent, the Russian reconnaissance personnel could not really get close to the Vladikavkaz Fortress. They could only watch the non-stop artillery fire day and night from the periphery and the repeated attacks launched by the Chinese at night. The result of a fierce offensive by the Chinese army came out. When the news reached Platov, he thought that the Vladikavkaz Fortress was already crumbling and was in danger of falling at any time.

Moreover, on the way to the Vladikavkaz Fortress, Platov and the others also saw too many scenes of Russian civilians leaving their homes and fleeing westward with their young and old in tow. Their marches were often blocked by crowds of people and traffic, unable to move.

"If we continue like this, I'm afraid Vladikavkaz will be lost and we won't be able to reach Vladikavkaz." Platov stood on the slope of the roadside, looking at the surging crowd of refugees.

"Should we send people down to disperse them so that the road can be cleared for the troops to go first?" said the adjutant on the side.

"What are you talking about? We are soldiers. We cannot protect them. It is already a shame for us to make them displaced and drag their families to flee. How can we forcefully drive them away now, so that they cannot even escape?" Latov rejected the adjutant's suggestion without even thinking about it.

"Since this doesn't work, there must always be a way to speed up the march. Otherwise, we may really lose Vladikavkaz before we reach Vladikavkaz." The adjutant looked at Prato. Husband said. He is Platov's nephew, so he is not afraid of Platov.

It was common for Cossacks to drive civilians out of the way in order to speed up their march.

The Cossacks symbolized ruthlessness. They were undisciplined, acted wantonly, and were ruthless to the common people. As a result, they were hated by friends and foes throughout Europe.

The adjutant looked at his uncle. He knew very well that his uncle had experienced the battle against Napoleon before and saw too many sacrifices of Russian civilians, so he felt pity in his heart. But the adjutant did not think so in his heart. He believed that it was more important and more beneficial to Russia to rush to the Vladikavkaz Fortress as soon as possible to contain the Chinese.

Compassionate compassion is a good virtue, but it also depends on the situation.

To make a very inappropriate remark, the adjutant felt that his uncle had stayed in St. Petersburg for more than ten years [Platov was the leader of the Tsarist Guard Cossacks and came to power during the reign of Paul I], and he had too much of the aristocratic atmosphere of St. Petersburg. Real Cossacks would have no mercy on these civilian animals. Who makes them weak? The weak do not deserve sympathy.

"Order the troops to keep all the heavy equipment [cavalry artillery] and give it to the rear troops for safekeeping. They will wait until the road is clear before moving forward. The rest of the troops will all move forward lightly. We will move towards Vladikavkaz via the small road." Prato. Husband said.

"Is this feasible? Without the cavalry artillery, we will have to attack their logistics convoys under the Chinese rocket launchers, and this battle will be difficult to fight." Mikhailovich Razin, the deputy of the corps, felt that Platov's idea was not very appropriate.

"If not, I'm afraid it's not that the battle is difficult to fight, but that there is no battle at all. Here, we need their help." Platov said.

"Report to the general, His Majesty has sent an order." A liaison officer rode over hurriedly.

"Say it again. We don't have much time to quibble about words now." Platov was very clear about the fancy tricks of the Russian ruling class, and now he didn't have time to listen to these irrelevant words.

"His Majesty ordered our army to speed up the march and rush to Vladikavkaz to help General Kirilenko in the fortress to hold on to Vladikavkaz." The liaison officer read.

"Write back to His Majesty, I will rush to Vladikavkaz as soon as possible." Platov said perfunctorily.

With the communication means of this era, Alexander I could not intervene in the Caucasus War at all.

"Send orders to all departments and move forward lightly. What we need most now is speed. By the way, rocket launchers and bazookas must not be thrown away. Take them all with you after disassembling them." Platov said.

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In Nanjing, Chen Ming's attention also shifted from Europe to the Northwest. Unfortunately, the communication means of this era were really too low.

Chen Ming now doubts how the Chinese military history gave birth to the saying "planning and winning thousands of miles away". This is really just a legend. Perhaps the true meaning of this sentence is just the YY of ancient literati.

Therefore, the importance of the telegraph is unquestionable. It is not only very important for business, but also for the military.

Chen Ming asked Zhongshan Academy of Natural Sciences to set up a telegraph research group more than ten years ago, but it was useless. The premise of inventing the telegraph is to have a battery, even the most primitive battery. And Chen Ming has no memory of the invention of the battery. He only knows that ordinary batteries have carbon rods and zinc. But what's the use of this?

The group has been established for several years. It cannot be said that there are no achievements, but there are definitely no breakthroughs. It was not until 1799 in the Western calendar that Italian physicist Volta invented a very primitive battery, which opened a window for the group.

But now 13 or 14 years have passed, and the telegraph is still in the experimental stage.

Chen Ming didn't even have the opportunity to contribute to the "Morse code". He was thinking about Chinese pinyin before. Because he didn't know whether Zhu Hongwu's Hongwu Zhengyun could be turned into a code.

The lack of breakthroughs in telegraph technology made Chen Ming's war situation in the northwest seriously stagnant.

This kind of thing is specifically manifested in Chen Ming, that is, Emperor Chen is lazy all day long and has no interest in politics.

The cabinet took the opportunity to grasp some power in its own hands, and Chen Ding, who had just "participated in politics", also took the opportunity to start building his own prestige.

But what made Chen Ming, who was watching from the sidelines, feel relieved was that Chen Ding did not get carried away, nor did he take the opportunity to suppress his former opponents.

Official business is handled in an official manner!

This made Chen Ming very satisfied. He did not speculate his son from the malicious side, just assumed that Chen Ding really did not bear grudges.

After being silent for a while, Chen Wei proposed a new "100-acre farm plan". His fiefdom is on the south line of the Great Lakes. The lakeside plain is fertile and vast, the terrain is complex and diverse, the natural resources are rich and colorful, and the scenery is gorgeous. It is an ideal place to establish a foundation.

Chen Wei's initial plan was to vigorously develop agriculture. It is not that there are no mines in his fiefdom. The underground resources in the Great Lakes region are quite rich, with large reserves, many varieties, good quality, and convenient mining conditions. The Appalachian Mountains are the most important coal fields in the later beacon country, and its reserves account for half of the country. The west and south of Lake Superior are the most important iron ore producing areas in the United States, with reserves accounting for about 80% of the United States. But Chen Wei has no money to develop these on a large scale.

Therefore, he came up with a plan of granting 100 acres of land per capita to attract local immigrants with little money and few people but a lot of land.

Over the years, the annexation of land in Chenhan has been proceeding slowly and steadily. Individual workers are annexed by small farms, and small farms are annexed by medium-sized farms. Above medium-sized farms are large and super-large farms. However, the government does not support large and super-large farms. In the future of Chenhan, small and medium-sized farms will be the mainstream.

The definition of a small farm is 1,000 mu, and the definition of a medium-sized farm is 5,000 mu.

Therefore, the most powerful annexation is between self-cultivating farmers and small farms.

This also continuously produces landless farmers for China's rural areas, providing sufficient labor for China's industrial and commercial development.

When Chenhan was first established, there were many self-cultivating farmers all over the country. After all, Chenhan had a million national defense forces, and each soldier had a small family behind him.

However, with the establishment of mutual aid societies and joint-stock companies, the actual right to use land was unknowingly stripped from the most basic "family".

Now, nine out of ten local super-large farms and their affiliated agricultural companies have evolved from military-agricultural joint-stock companies.

Chen Yu had no money, and no matter how good his fiefdom was, he could not afford to recruit so many immigrants. And the development was slow. Chen Yu had no choice but to turn his attention to the landless farmers, tempting them with 100 mu of land per capita.

To put it bluntly, Chen Yu's proposal is to open up a new path outside the previous vassal alliance.

Chen Yu's Guo State is not the only vassal state in North America. Do other vassal states also grant 100 acres of land per capita like Chen Yu? How is that possible? Therefore, once Chen Yu's plan was proposed, it was unanimously opposed by the civil and military officials of the court [many vassal states], including many nobles in South America.