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Volume 1: Fierce Battle in Changsha Chapter 728: Never Surrender

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    When Tan Shaoguang received the news of the capture of Nerchinsk City, he had already led his army across the Chita River. The army was marching hard in the cold wind, but fortunately they were about to complete the full siege of Chita.

    Chita is located west of Nerchinsk, at the confluence of the Chita River and the Ingoda River. It was established in 1825. At that time, it was just a camp for the Cossacks to march to the Far East. After more than thirty years of development, it became Transbaikal.  center of the state.  At the same time, this was one of the places where those who opposed the tsarist rulers were exiled. After the Decembrists failed to rebel against the tsar in 1825, more than 120 Decembrists were exiled here.

    Stopping on the bank of the Chita River, Tan Shaoguang handed the battle report to the two generals beside him to watch. They were both former generals of the North Palace. One was the former North Palace inspector Zhang Chunxian, and the other was the North Palace counselor Liu Naixin.  Like most of the other North Palace soldiers, they came to the Northeast after experiencing that painful and unforgettable brutal battle. This was a mentality that was close to self-exile. In short, they all decided to return to the Northeast.  They are unwilling to return to the south in their lifetime, because there are people and things they don't want to see there.

    Liu Naixin said calmly after reading the battle report: "Shuai Tan, it seems that the plan is going well. We should easily capture Chita, and then the whole army can enter the city as soon as possible to spend the winter."

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

    Liu Nai  Although most of these people are now old and dead, I still admire their behavior. They are a group of idealistic rebels."

    Tan Shaoguang nodded and said: "I am thinking about the Russian Decembrists and their wives. Those are really a group of noble women. After the Decembrists failed in the uprising, they were exiled to Siberia by the Tsar, and their wives faced  They had two choices, either to sever ties with their husbands and continue to stay as nobility in Petersburg. Or to be deprived of their nobility status and accompany their husbands to do hard labor in Siberia. These noble, weak women showed great courage and resolutely  They chose the latter. The Decembrists and their wives came to Siberia and first built churches to bring the Orthodox Church here. This is their belief. It is their spiritual home. The Decembrists built it in Chita  The first Muke-style church is still intact. They planned and built the city here and became the earliest city builders and pioneers in Chita. Chita is their home. I was thinking that they were against the tsar.  , so what will happen to their descendants?"

    Liu Naixin shook his head and said: "Shuai Tan, I know what you mean. You want to use this to defeat others without fighting, but in the eyes of the Chita people, we are just a group of bandits invading their homes. Don't forget  Yes, Chita is also a Cossack camp. There are also countless criminals who were exiled here from Russia."

    Tan Shaoguang put away his gaze, turned around and smiled and said: "I was just crazy. We are invaders now, not liberators." Then he asked in a low tone: "Mr. Liu, thinking of the Decembrists,  I just thought of you, do you really not want to go back to the south?"

    Liu Naixin and Zhang Chunxian looked at each other, with bitterness and pain in their eyes. Liu Naixin sighed and said: "The innocent souls of tens of thousands of people in the Heavenly King's Mansion are still asking for their lives in the air. Our killing is too heavy, so we will never go back."  It's a relief." Tan Shaoguang wanted to comfort him after hearing this.  But they didn't know how to speak. After the three of them were silent for a while, Tan Shaoguang said: "Tell the soldiers the news about Nerchinsk, so that everyone can cheer up. Try to spend the night in Chita tonight!"

    Chita is the camp of the Cossacks in the Far East. It has a long history and it still remains today. However, Tan Shaoguang annihilated 30,000 Cossack cavalry. The leading cavalry troops of the Taiping Army who arrived earlier raised the flag of the Cossack cavalry high on the wooden pole.  They placed the bear-skin military caps of the Cossack cavalry on top of their carbines.  When they were showing off their power outside Chita City, the people inside Chita City were already panicking.

    At this time, there was also a Russian army stationed in Chita. The Tsar specifically named the Kassack army. Among them, the officers and above were all Cossacks, but the soldiers were all exiled criminals. They struggled under harsh natural conditions.  It's just a militia, they can only protect themselves.

    Chita is not a castle in the full sense at this moment. The wooden walls around it are no more than two people high. When they saw tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers arriving here, the soldiers and civilians of Chita burst into tears. They knew  The fate after the city is broken is just like what their compatriots and families will do after they break down the Chinese village. What awaits them must be ruthless killing and revenge!  This is the survival rule of Siberia, killOnly by foreigners can our own tribe survive better.

    When the artillery of the Taiping Army set up their positions, it was already noon, the time when the temperature was the highest of the day. Even so, the artillerymen still had to light a bonfire next to the cannon to increase the temperature, so as to prevent the muzzle from being condensed by water vapor.  Causes the chamber to explode when fired.

    There was no persuasion to surrender, and no reminder to start war. The roar of cannons was the signal to start war. The wooden walls of Chita melted and collapsed in the heat of the shells. The first building built by the Decembrists in Chita  The wooden church was also destroyed by artillery fire.  Far Eastern Siberia, the most humanistic city in Eastern Europe founded by the Decembrists, was destroyed by artillery fire. Chita failed to fulfill its historical mission in the history of later generations. It could no longer bring the humanities of Tsarist Russia and Eastern Europe to the forefront.  The breath spread to other parts of Siberia because its owners became Taiping soldiers.

    There was no suspense in the battle. The Kasak garrison of more than 3,000 people was completely annihilated. They died fighting to protect their wives, children, and homes. No one surrendered.  The pain they had brought to other ethnic groups in Siberia came to them. Tens of thousands of civilians in the city fell under the guns and bayonets of the Taiping Army, ranging from the elderly to children, and no one survived.

    Unlike Nerchinsk, there are mostly Cossacks here. For the ruthless bandits, completely annihilating them is the best choice, not to mention that any war of conquest will never be clean.  The Taiping Army chose to kill. They had no choice. To make this land completely the territory of the Kingdom of Heaven, they had to clear out those people, and then the people they immigrated from the mainland could better survive on this land!

    The Russian double-headed eagle flag has been trampled underfoot, replaced by a red-backed golden dragon flag. Tan Shaoguang stood in the blood-stained square of Chita City, looked at the raised flag, and shouted to a group of Northeastern Army generals: "Remember  , you are pioneers and conquerors. For the sake of future generations, you cannot have mercy or mercy. All you need to do is to conquer! When our red-background golden dragon flag rises anywhere in this land,  , you have the obligation to completely guarantee that she will never be lowered again! Yes, when our golden dragon flag is raised, it will never be lowered!"

    The same thing happened one after another in Nerchinsk. Liu Mingchuan only left those miners who could work, and the rest were wiped out.  In fact, the Northeast Army has also done this when clearing Russian settlements along the Heilongjiang River in the Northeast over the years. They are just retaliating. What they do is no different from what the Russians did before.

    After the brutal Russians were driven away, the Taiping Army began to cooperate with various local tribes, including the Yakuts, Evenkis, Oroqen, Nivkhs, Udgei and other ethnic groups.  The Taiping Army protected them, conducted trade with them, and provided economic support to them. As long as they raised the flag of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and became subjects of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, they would be rewarded with protection and trade.  The Taiping Army had been doing this for several years, so the tribes were united. More than ten years later, they all became members of the ethnic minorities in the Kingdom of Heaven. This directly resulted in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom having ten more tribes than the great kingdom of later generations.  Multiple ethnic groups.

    The Russians were finally driven out of this land. This absolute clearing operation continued until a year later. After Russia could no longer support the Far East and negotiated a separate peace with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Taiping Army stopped this clearing operation and replaced it with expulsions.  .  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 some people stayed, and they became another ethnic minority in the Kingdom of Heaven, the Russians.

    After the Russian military forces in Chita and other places were eliminated, the Chen Yucheng Cavalry Regiment and Mongolian tribal warriors on the Mongolian Plateau formed a powerful ranger patrol force. They drove away the bandits on the Mongolian Plateau, and the Russian forces  It was gradually cleared out over the next year.  With the end of the joint military campaign against the North by Tan Shaoguang and Chen Yucheng, the Taiping Rebellion established the Northern Xinjiang Military Region in northern Xinjiang, and established several large administrative regions such as Beihai (i.e. Lake Baikal) County, Waixing'anling County, and Lingbei County.  , and a large number of immigrants moved here.  Later, Chita was renamed Weiqing City, and Nerchinsk City was renamed Huo Qubing City. These two places became the centers for the spread of Chinese civilization to barbaric Siberia.

    Of course, the Russians' last battle in the Far East was not in Chita, but in the farther ice city of Yakutsk. But now that the Northeast has entered a severe winter, both sides have chosen to temporarily cease their activities and wait for the beginning of next spring to fight again.  .  There were various reasons for the failure of the Russian land offensive, but the biggest reason came from its own internal instability. Tsar Alexander II¡¯s incomplete serfdom reform slowed down Russia¡¯s reform.  In the three years since the annexation of the Far East, more than two thousand domestic peasant uprisings occurred in Tsarist Russia.The uprising caused Russia to completely lose the Far East.  When later generations of historians studied this period of history, they said that Russia spent three years liberating the serfs, but lost the Far East forever because of the waste of these three years (To be continued.)
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