? "Prince, I dare not be sure whether the marshal escaped.-< Shuhai Pavilion >- . The situation at that time was so chaotic that all the princes and the people were gone. In the chaos of the slaves, I could not conquer the army at all. The city was suddenly attacked by the Han people, and the other side had thousands of troops. We could not resist it, so we had to... have to..."

"A bastard, how can you lose it if you say something important? Prince Abala, Wendurhan threw it away from the hands of your Chechen Khan. I order you to go back to the tribe immediately to order all the troops and take back Wendurhan!" The person who spoke was Prince Handadorji, the man with the greatest power in the entire Outer Mongolia now.

In the pseudo-Mongolian regime, the living Buddha was supported as the "Sunlight Emperor". When the great lama Chelinzimit was a puppet as the Prime Minister of the Cabinet. Unfortunately, Chelinzimit's "Great Mongol Empire" policy affected Russia's influence on the pseudo-government of Outer Mongolia, and thus lost the protection of the Russians. In addition, he once intended to weaken the power of the princes and princes in Outer Mongolia and confiscate the scattered troops of various Outer Mongolia banners, but was hostile to the nobles of Outer Mongolia. He died in exile in Kobdo in 14 years.

Although Emperor Rikka has gradually gotten rid of his identity as a "puppet" because of Russia's support, in Outer Mongolia his real power is still under Prince Handadorji. Therefore, although his status is respectful at such a meeting, he actually rarely speaks.

When the Prime Minister Namu Nang Sulun heard that Prince Handadorji was going to send Chechen Khan to attack Wendur Khan, he was shocked. Although he was now in a collusion with Prince Handadorji, he had been secretly dealing with the destruction of Emperor Rikkang and suppressing the power of the princes. However, Chechen Khan, who could squeeze out 4,000 cavalry, was there still unknown how many Han armed people there, and he was not afraid of forcing these princes to surrender to the Han people?

Now he acted as a peacemaker and said, "The prince calmed down. Although Wendurhan's mistake was responsible for Wangbaqing's responsibility, it is not the time to hold him accountable. The Han people are about to call him. Should we arrange for defense?"

"The prince calms down... calms down..." Prince Chechen Khan Zuoqi was also shocked. He didn't want to go to the front line to take the warriors of his tribe to fight to death with the Han people. "The enemy has strong military strength and sufficient firepower. I'm afraid there are not enough warriors who support our Chechen Khan. Can they send more..."

"Useless things..." Prince Handadorji snorted coldly, but he could still listen to the words of the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, Sulun. "There are not many soldiers in Kulun City, and you have brought them with you. What should I do with Kulun's defense? I have said that you should be more careful and be careful. You don't listen, and you will turn a blind eye to your recruitment..."

"Prince..." Prince Chechen Khan Zuoqi begged, "It's not that we don't want to recruit soldiers, but that our Chechen Khan has only 79,000 households in total, and has recruited 6,000 warriors. If there are more recruitment, the Han people will be called, and those troublemakers and slaves will start to make trouble. Before I come this time, I suppressed a violent movement..."

"Prince, I don't think so. The enemy's troops are powerful at the moment, and our army is not sure of winning even if we go out to attack the city. It's better to stick to Kulun and wait for the Russian reinforcements to come up." Cabinet Prime Minister Na Munang Sulun interrupted.

"How many Russian reinforcements are available in the city? How many of our troops are there? On the Chita side, the Russians have not yet replied to us. When will their reinforcements arrive?" Prince Handadorji asked impatiently.

Minister of War, Sang Busulun, stood up and said, "There are more than 3,500 Russian troops in Kulun City, and there will be 5,000 in five days. There are about 50,000 warriors in each unit of our Mongolian army, but only more than 7,000 are equipped with new guns, and the rest of the equipment will be behind the Han people. As for when the Russian reinforcements will arrive, Mr. Kojevic on the Chita, because the Han people sent troops to sneak into Russia and blow up the big railway, I am afraid that it will not be possible to reach Chita until early September."

"So we have to stick to it for at least half a month?" Prince Handadorji was worried. "How can we stick to it if Kulun City is not stable?"

"Prince, don't panic. My Kulun City was allocated dozens of times during the reign of Emperor Qing Dynasty. The city walls were built no more than the Han people's city. Moreover, there were warriors brought by the princes in the city, and there were more than 3,000 Russians in the city. It should be no problem to defend the city." Busulun immediately analyzed, "Although the enemy has taken down Wendurhan, it is impossible to advance from there even if it is faster than five or six days. The Han people came from afar and drove their horses, and there were some cavalry in the infantry. I think it would be better to send a smuggle cavalry along the way to harass the Han people along the way to hinder the Han people's march. On the one hand, we can strengthen the city defense of Kulun, and on the other hand, we can also urge Chita to send more troops. As long as we can persist for half a month, when the Russian reinforcements arrive, we will definitely be able to repel the Han people!"

"Yes, yes, just do it!" Prince Handadorji was a little sane, but after Gun Busulun said this, he became confident again. "Gun Busulun, immediately send orders to soldiers and horses nearby, asking them to give up their garrison and gather with all their strength at Kulun! Only a few teams of cavalry were left to harass the Han soldiers continuously!"

"Your Majesty, what do you mean?"

Prince Handadorji looked angry, "Since I have to stay in Kulun and wait for Russian reinforcements, I can ignore the places outside for the time being. When the Russian reinforcements arrive and defeat the Han people, they will return to our hands. We must also strengthen the walls and clear the fields. When the troops are concentrated, they will let them bring all their food, grass, cattle and sheep, and not give them any supplies to the Han people. In August and September of the grassland, there will be a knife wind blowing at night. The Han people are not familiar with the sky on our grassland, so they must freeze and starve to death on this land of immortality!"

"It's amazing. When the Russian army arrives, we will turn the defense into an offensive and wipe out the Han army at the city of Kulun."

Everyone in the palace seemed to have caught another life-saving straw like a man who fell into the water, and was once again proud. Only when Emperor Sun-Kan Dadorji and the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, the Muncan Sulun, chanted the scriptures in a low voice, a slight severity flashed in his slightly lowered eyes.

"When the Russians arrive, we will clean up together!"

He had sent his confidants to secretly contact the Russians and was willing to ced the Donu Ulianghai area, which had been controlled by the Russians, to the Russians in exchange for the Russians' full support for him. When the Russian reinforcements arrived and defeated the Han people, it was time for him to take the opportunity to take the Prime Minister Namu Nang Sulun and Prince Handadorji!

Like the rapidly developing situation in Outer Mongolia, the progress of the West Route Army in the Northwest region has gradually become clearer.

The general in charge of the Northwest War and commanding the various ministries was changed to Li Han's old friend Xiong Bingkun after the full war between China and Russia. This lord was a revolutionary hero, and he had not shown any political tendency in recent years. Instead, he devoted himself to the construction of the National Defense Forces. He was a general who could make him feel relieved.

Xiong Bingkun's tribe was not the first general to enter the northwest and modern lands, because before he went to Xinjiang, he was recalled back to Xi'an by Li Han in an expedition telegram. He had something to say to him in person. In addition to fighting, the Western Army used troops in the northwest, and in addition to fighting, it was more important to politics. If he did not explain to Xiong Bingkun carefully and prepared some civil servants who were proficient in management, Li Han was very worried that even if China took the opportunity to recover the lost land and gave Russia a heavy blow to Central Asia, it would be difficult for China to continue to maintain its influence on Central Asia after the subsequent Bolshevik Red Revolution.

His concerns are not unreasonable. In modern times, Central Asian countries were a place of constant wars, just like the Middle East. Because no ethnic group in Central Asia could have overwhelming advantages here, and no country could have hegemony. After the collapse of the Mongolian Timur Empire in the late 15th century, Central Asia entered into division from a brief state of unity. At this time, the nomadic tribe Uzbeks entered Central Asia from the north. In the early 18th century, the feudal Khanate established in the Furhara River Basin established its capital in the city of Kokhan, and it was called the Kokhan Khanate.

When Huang Taiji conquered Mongolia and defeated the Golden Family in the early Qing Dynasty, he once surrendered to the Qing government. However, as the Qing army entered the pass and the Qing court's military strength was fully southeast, the country of Kokhan embarked on the road of great success. He took advantage of the opportunity when the Qing Dynasty began to decline and attacked the scattered Kazakhs and Kirgiz tribes, controlling the Kazakh grasslands and the vast area west of the Pamirs. Its territory reached the Ili River Basin in the northeast, the Sir River in the north, the Aral Sea in the west, and India in the south. In the middle of the 19th century, the Khanate of Central Asia fought each other, and Kokhan conquered Tashkent, an important commercial and military center in Central Asia.

In fact, on the land of Central Asia, the concept of state and nation was not strong, but more of it was tribe. Therefore, although the Qing court had the so-called border line at that time, this territory, together with the people above, was all out of vague concepts, and no one could accurately figure out how to draw their own territory. It was just divided according to the strength of national strength. When the country was strong, your border line could be expanded out at any time, and when the country was weak, other countries could also expand to your border.

When Xiong Bingkun led his troops into the Russian controlled area, the Western Route Army had already had four defense divisions entering the Central Asian region. The National Defense Force and the Russian army launched dozens of fierce battles in the Almaty area in their circle. Because they occupied the advantage of numbers and equipment, the National Defense Force quickly adapted to the terrain of Central Asia after experiencing the initial discomfort and began to turn into a counterattack. In Santonak, Dumbzar, and Nadaganda, three places successively gave devastating blows to the Russian army. After more than ten days of fighting, by August 20, the Russian Almaty defenders had lost more than 8,000 people and lost a large number of strategic areas and were forced to retreat to Almaty.

On August 18, Xiong Bingkun commanded all the troops to advance towards Almaty, strictly implementing Professor Li Han's methods along the way, tempting the Kazakhstan and Kyrgyz tribes with the confiscated old Russian guns to surrender to them, and openly declared that China would send troops to defeat Russian troops in Central Asia and win peace for the people of Central Asia.

From the 21st to the 25th, the Battle of Almaty broke out. Russia gathered 14,000 Russian troops in Almaty, and more than 10,000 Kazakh and Uzbek noble soldiers to fight with the Western Route Army. Xiong Bingkun keenly discovered that the Russians lacked air defense and heavy firepower in the Far East. While ordering all the baggage teams to move closer to him, he mobilized bombers from Xinjiang to enter the Almaty area. On the 25th, more than 20 bombers suffered heavy damage to the Russian defenders and Central Asian nobles in the city after two consecutive days of bombing. Xiong Bingkun concentrated the superior forces of two divisions to attack Almaty. After more than 7 hours of hand-to-hand combat, after the Russian Governor of Almaty, General Kirillenko, shot himself, his adjutant ordered the Russian troops in the city to surrender to the National Defense Force.

On the 29th, the Western Army completed its established military mission, regained all the lost lands, including Lake Balkash, and expanded the western lands westward by nearly 200 kilometers.

After controlling Almaty, the Western Route Army had supply points and arsenals in Central Asia. Although the Almaty arsenal built by the Russians only had the production capacity of less than 2,000 rifles per year, it was still more than enough to repair guns and produce bullets.

After the news that Xiong Bingkun's troops captured Almaty was heard back in China, Xi'an was overjoyed. Li Han immediately ordered three defense divisions from Sichuan and Hunan to rush to Xinjiang, and at the same time ordered the Ili Military Region to send two more divisions to Almaty to expand the army in Central Asia to six divisions. At the same time, he issued the latest instructions to Almaty to block the Russian Central Asian Legion and incite tribes of various ethnic groups to resist Russia, and to draw a group of them from their troops to control the Tashkent region.

Due to the continuous decline of the Qing court after the Opium War, Russia's forces annexed Kokhan in 1876. Now Russia has drawn a large number of troops from Central Asia due to the European war. Tashkent, one of the most important cities in Central Asia, now only two infantry regiments of various countries are stationed. Because China sent troops to attack the Russian army in Central Asia, the Tashkent area broke out in the Tashkent area. Although the Russian troops stationed in the Russian state barely suppressed the rebel army, their strength was also severely damaged and they could no longer defend the city. This was the best time for China to capture Tashkent.

The chaos in Tashkent seems to be just a microcosm of Central Asia. Central Asian places are very difficult to manage, and Central Asian nations are also difficult to achieve harmonious coexistence. In this place, the right to speak is still the force.

The uprising in the Tashkent region was not actually to respond to China's military operations in Central Asia. In fact, since the outbreak of the European war, dozens of uprisings broke out in the past few years, but they were all suppressed by the Russian army. The nobles of the former Kokhan country could not have any harsh rule by Russia. They had long wanted to restore Kokhan country. This was why after China sent troops to Central Asia, they took advantage of the main force of the Russian army in Central Asia to concentrate on the Chinese team to fight, and they took the opportunity to attack.

In fact, the nobles of Kokhan were not only hostile to Russia, but also strongly opposed the military actions of the National Defense Forces to restore their homeland and expand into Central Asia, believing that the Almaty region occupied by the Chinese belonged to Kokhan and was generally hostile to the Chinese.

It was through the Bureau of Investigation that Li Han discovered their hostility to China sending troops to Central Asia to regain their hometowns through the Central Asian region through contact with these nobles of the former Kokand countries. He then ordered Xiong Bingkun to occupy several important cities in Central Asia before the original Kokand countries could form a unified force, and then separate the Central Asian countries to follow Russia to achieve China's expansion in Central Asia. Therefore, Tashkent's central position is particularly important to China.

Controlling Central Asia is of great significance to China. From a strategic perspective, Central Asia happens to be Russia's soft abdomen. From here, it can simply and neatly separate the ties between Europe and Russia and Asia and Russia, and can threaten the Caucasus region; for the northwest China and the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, this is simply a natural barrier.

In an economic sense, Central Asian countries are not rich at present. However, Central Asia is rich in oil, natural gas, minerals, uranium and other resources, and is the world's best pastures and pastures. The cotton and wool produced every year are among the forefront of the world, and their economic value is no less than China's recovery of Outer Mongolia.

Therefore, Li Han issued many confidential orders to Xiong Bingkun, including suppressing major Central Asian forces who are determined to restore their country and are hostile to outsiders, as well as cultivating pro-China forces and various resistance forces that are hostile to Russia. He even sent a revolutionary propaganda team to Xiong Bingkun, following what Russia has done in history, taking China's various changes since the 11-year revolution as an example, to propagate revolutionary propositions to the lower class of Central Asian, and strive to destroy the Central Asian aristocratic system once and for all.

Of course, the most difficult and important task in front of Xiong Bingkun is to fight the six Russian infantry divisions that have arrived in the Karagan area!

The Han people came faster than they thought!

The Mongols looked too high at their cavalry morale and the ability of the two cavalry divisions of the National Wehrmacht. After more than ten days of marching, on the third day of Wendurkhan's capture, the two major cavalry regiments entered Mongolia finally met. The two infantry divisions even got the first plan. They cleared and destroyed thousands of cavalry sent by Kulun to harass the marching. On the morning of the 19th, they arrived at Kulun City with only twenty miles stationed and rested.

Three days later, when Bai Chongxi and Wu Peifunen led the middle army to rush into Zongmod, the pseudo-Mongolian government in Kulun was already in chaos, and everyone was in panic. Many nobles of all sizes were packing up and down, preparing to wear makeup and flee to the Donu Ulianghai or Baikal. Although more than a thousand Russian troops sent by the Russian army outside Baikal had arrived, facing the huge scale of tens of thousands of troops outside the city, the guns that angrily pointed at Kulun made the nobles of all sizes in the city scared.

At this time, I don’t know who came out of the city. The great President Li of the Han people ordered that after capturing Kulun City, he would wipe out Kulun’s methods that almost almost killed the nobles of the ** were also used to deal with them, such as the Outer Mongolian princes. Now, as soon as the news came out, more people fled. Every day, Mongolian princes and princes took their children and forced themselves to escape from the city. However, the defenders did not dare to attack them, and Prince Handadorji also gave the nobles who were surrounded by him to use various excuses to beg him to open the door and let others go.

As a result, the wind of escape was strong. When his confidant reminded him to pay attention, Prince Handadorji was motivated to convene a joint meeting of the cabinet and the princes, the staff was less than one-third of the last time.

In the end, Prince Handadorji was also a little hungry. In the past two days, it was just reported that the Han people defeated tens of thousands of Russian troops in Central Asia, and the news was very evil. Seeing that the Russian reinforcements had not come, he was also hanging in his heart, not knowing that these people might resist the Han people's siege. He felt worried about how to think about it. In the end, it was the idea given by Prime Minister Na Munang Sulun of the cabinet. He believed that as before, he should first send personnel to explore the national defense force's tone. If the Han people did not plan to deal with them, their current power could still be preserved. Outer Mongolia had the final say. As long as the Han people did not station troops in Outer Mongolia, they would not be able to re-merge them into China.

Prince Handadorji also agreed to his proposal, but he mainly wanted to inquire about the other party's strength. He did not have no idea about President Li, who has led China to become more and more powerful after he mastered China. He was also a little hungry in his heart when he had done something in Outer Mongolia over the years. If he looked at the constitution promulgated by China, his open declaration of Mongolia was already a treason, and according to Chinese laws, he would die without life. For him, this path would basically not work, unless President Li personally opened a golden mouth to protect his power and life. Please visit - < Shuhai Pavilion >- .

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