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    Alexei has night blindness and cannot see clearly at night.

    He walked from the Grand Bazaar in the city to the river, swam quietly across the Volga, and walked a long way around the fortress.

    You don¡¯t need eyes in the dark, you just run to the east anyway, that¡¯s all the territory of the Huerhut Department.  Historically, when the Turghuts returned to the east, they occupied even the west bank of the Volga River, and the fortresses and cities of Tsarist Russia were surrounded by the grasslands of the Turghuts.

    I don't know how long he walked, Alexei was out of breath, and his malnourished body could no longer support him.

    He couldn't see what was going on around him at all, so he could only shout at the top of his voice, "Is there anyone? Is there anyone?"

    While shouting and walking, a herdsman finally heard him, rushed out of the tent and caught him.

    The two sides cannot communicate, and ordinary herdsmen cannot speak Russian.

    In the morning of the next day, Alexei was taken to the leader, who in turn took him to the king.

    Xie Yuan originally planned to visit the Khiva Khanate on the way, but before he set off, he heard that Russians had defected.  After a brief understanding of the situation, Xie Yuan asked, "Why does the shooting army in the castle want to join us?"

    Alexei said: "We are starving to death. In the past half a month, I have starved to death a son and a daughter."

    Xie Yuan asked suspiciously: "Is there a shortage of food in the castle?"

    Alexei replied: "The governor is not short of food, but our shooting army is short of food."

    Xie Yuan was even more confused when he heard this: "Aren't you soldiers? The governor doesn't pay you?"

    Alexei said: "We are the shooting army, we are born. My father is, so am I, and my son is still. When there is a war, we take up arms. When there is no war, we look for work to support our family,  Take care of the lord's errands. Some time ago, the city was sacked, and now we can't find work."

    Xie Yuan suddenly realized that the person in front of him was a Tsarist Russian military household.

    "How many people like you are there?" Xie Yuan asked.

    Alexei said: "There are more than two hundred."

    Xie Yuan asked again: "I usually live in the castle."

    Alexei nodded: "They all live in the castle."

    Xie Yuan asked again: "Do they all have muskets? How much ammunition are there?"

    Alexei said: "Some of them don't have muskets anymore. They don't have much ammunition. We usually don't have any ammunition. They were issued during the defense of the city some time ago."

    "How many other defenders are there?" Xie Yuan continued to ask.

    Alexei said: "There are 300 border guards, and there are more than 20 followers of the governor. These soldiers are different from us. They can have enough food."

    Xie Yuan turned around and said in Mongolian: "His Royal Highness, you must have a capital to build a country. I think Astrakhan is suitable for the capital."

    Shuku Erdaiqing was moved by hearing this, but hesitated and asked: "Could this person be a false surrender?"

    "That depends on whether you dare to gamble." Xie Yuan said.

    Ayuqi said, "Grandpa, you can take a gamble."

    Astrakhan is not only a fortress, but the city on the other side of the river is also a trade center on the Caspian Sea.  Occupying here would cut off the trade between Tsarist Russia and Persia, and if you want to do business, you must pay taxes to the Turghut Kingdom honestly.

    Tsarist Russia will not let go of such an important city, and is very likely to mobilize tens of thousands of troops, or even more than 100,000 troops to attack.

    Opportunities and dangers coexist, and it depends on whether the Turghuts can bear them.

    Shukur Daiqing was still hesitating, and he said truthfully: "The Russians we have dealt with can have hundreds of thousands of troops. If they occupy the city, they will face endless attacks. If the tsar sends  With an army of 100,000 to 200,000, how can we hold it?"

    Xie Yuan sneered: "You don't eat the meat you want, and you don't dare to occupy the city next to your pasture, so why do you still stay here? Let's go east as soon as possible, otherwise the Russians by the river will be more and more  The more you have, the more you won¡¯t even be able to keep the pasture in a few decades.¡±

    This is getting to the bottom of it. If you don¡¯t occupy the castle at this time, you will never think about it in the future.

    Just like another time and space, the grasslands of the Torghut Department spread all over the lower reaches of the Volga River.  But the Tsarist Russian castle stands by the river, like a nail in the heart of the Mongols. The Mongols can only submit to the Tsar and face endless military service.

    The tsar did not collect taxes from them, but conscripted troops every now and then.  Sometimes one or two thousand, sometimes three or five thousand, the Mongols were drawn to fight, and the casualty rate was generally around 20%.

    ? If you win the battle, you will not get any benefits, and if you lose the battle, you will suffer heavy losses. The population of the Huerhut Department has continued to decline.

    "I'll give you an idea,"Immediately squeezed his throat and changed his voice and shouted: "Kill the governor!"

    "Kill the governor!" The shooting soldiers shouted, thinking that Yakov was also an accomplice.

    Yakov mixed with these shooting troops and rushed to the governor's mansion to kill himself.  He was blind and couldn't see his clothes and appearance clearly. He deliberately slowed down and waited for the shooting soldiers to run away before turning around and fleeing in another direction.

    His family is in Moscow, where there are only mistresses and illegitimate children, and it doesn't matter if they are killed by the shooting army.

    This guy really ran away in the chaos, and fled all the way north to Tsaritsin, scaring the governor of Tsaritsin very much.

    The uprising in the north has not yet subsided, and the Tsar temporarily ignored it.  When the uprising was pacified, the tsar's food and grass were almost exhausted, and it was estimated that it would take another three to five years before he could gather tens of thousands of troops to conquer Turghut.

    An army of tens of thousands is already the limit.

    After all, Tsarist Russia is at war with Poland and Ottomans at the same time, and is even at war with China in the Far East.

    Astrakhan was occupied by the Mongols, which was equivalent to stabbing Tsarist Russia economically, and the already difficult Tsarist Russia's finances were bound to get worse.

    Moscow's Window to the East is closed.
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