Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 699
When Xiang Xingtian came to Samarkand, the capital of the Yuzi Xuanwei Division, he received a piece of news about the great changes in the situation in Persia.

"Sure enough, the pro-Qing Turkmen red-headed tribe connected with the courtiers and eunuchs of Persia to rebel." Xiang Xingtian felt a little tricky about this matter, although he didn't believe that the Persian side had much power to change the trend of the war.

In Europe, the Ming Dynasty has gained significant advantages in more and more battlefields, and the Western Qing Empire is already in a precarious state.

"These Turkic people who have no information and have never seen the world!" Xiang Xingtian scolded angrily.

In Samarkand, Xiang Xingtian met Duanmuwen who came over from Europe on a special trip. Duanmuwen's work in Europe was carried out very smoothly. Ning San, Han Ye and others can arrange things in an orderly manner.

Duanmuwen always looks energetic. Although he looks slow, he always does things beautifully.

"So the best thing to keep Ming Dynasty stable is to educate people all over the world. If they have no knowledge at all, don't know what the latest weapons are, and don't understand the concepts of comprehensive national strength, they will really be like These Turkmens are messing around." Duanmuwen was not upset by the behavior of the Turkmens, on the contrary, the more useful he was, the more he liked it.

Xiang Xingtian was helpless: "A few years ago, because of Persia's debt default, we obtained part of the Caucasus region according to the contract, which made Persia very dissatisfied with us. However, the Turkmen people are entangled with my Ming Dynasty. We caused the chaos back then. , Later they moved back to Yuzi, and they were chased and beaten by us, and many of them died. Now the Uzbeks who are obedient to us have been attacking the Turkmen, which makes the Turkmen always hostile to me. Their relatives, Ottoman Turkey It was also buried by my Ming Dynasty, so the Turkmen tribe really wanted to eat my flesh alive."

Duan Muwen was relaxed: "Death can be regarded as a beautiful potential. If you choose to fight against Daming, you will have to bear the consequences."

"The problem is that the red-headed Turkmen tribe and the Persian army under their control now have 3 troops, all of whom have undergone modern training. Their goal is probably to attack the Baku oil area and cooperate with Xiqing's actions."

Duanmuwen said: "It is impossible for the Qing army to bypass Tsaritsyn and go down to the Caucasus Mountains to attack Baku with them."

Both of them knew that the person who commanded the main force of the last Qing army was Cheng Lin. At this stage, Cheng Lin would only work but never contribute, so he would not threaten Daming to such an extent.

Duan Muwen took out a four-folded map from his shirt pocket, spread it out, and said to Xiang Xingtian: "Commander, there are 70 troops in Eastern Europe, although most of them are now Concentrated in Tsaritsyn and the Samara-Kazan line, there are only one or two divisions on the Caucasus side, but this does not count the garrison troops in the early years. The entire Volga Propaganda Division and the Caucasus Propaganda Division are It was established by the predecessors of our garrison regiment, many of them may be old now, 50 or [-] years old, but they are soldiers of Ming Dynasty at their core, and they can deal with the enemy with weapons."

Duan Muwen had a contemptuous smile at the corner of his mouth: "For those Turkmens and Persians, it is absolutely impossible for them to break through our defense. Needless to say, mobilizing the old garrison troops to go into battle is to station in the Caucasus The movement of the divisions in the area is not something the Persians can handle."

Xiang Xingtian Xinran, he said: "I also have the same opinion. We cannot let these red-headed Turkmen spread the flames of war to our Caucasus region, so we must calm things down in Persia as soon as possible. It just so happened that they controlled Suleiman I. The regime of the Safavid Dynasty was overthrown, and my Ming Dynasty nationals were threatened. I am going to suggest that the Military Department of the Legislative Council use this as an excuse to send troops to Persia. The garrisons in the Caucasus region and the Yuzi garrison will be used.”

The garrison in the Caucasus region is now the regular army of the Ming Dynasty, the Korean Fan Army, and the Dongying Fan Army, and the Yuzi Garrison is the Zhongxia Fan Army.The Zhongxia Fan Army did not go to the European battlefield on a large scale, unlike the Korean Fan Army, the Dongying Fan Army, and the Indian Fan Army, which deployed a large proportion of their troops to participate in the war.Because the Central Asian region has a small population, most of the residents are Chinese immigrants and garrison regiments, and there are not many local minorities.

The Zhongxia Army consists of two Kazakh brigades, one Uzbek brigade, one Pashtun brigade and one Tajik brigade.Unlike the Fan Army in many areas, the Zhongxia Fan Army was limited by the small local population, so their Fan Army was actually a reserve force.The Zhongxia Fan Army usually works in state-owned farms and enterprises like a garrison army, and conducts military training for one week every month.

The 24000 soldiers of the Zhongxia Fan Army included almost all young and middle-aged men in the Zhongxia region, so in a sense, the ethnic minorities here are all soldiers.In fact, the local Han people were either garrison troops or militiamen, and it was the same.

The Zhongxia Fan Army has been attacking the surrounding tribes that are not in the Ming Dynasty but are trying to plunder for a long time. Whether it is the Turkmen tribe, the Tajik tribe, or the Baluchistan or Pashtun tribe, even if they are of the same tribe, they will kill very fiercely.

Because of the collectivized economy, the local ethnic minorities have the stability and prosperity that they did not have in the life of nomadic tribes.The Turkmens have repeatedly tried to plunder state farms and towns dominated by Uzbeks.Once the soldiers of the Uzbek Army discovered this momentum, they immediately put on military uniforms, carried steel guns, rode horses, or drove warrior chariots to fight with the looters.This change is a bit like the natural contradiction between farming peoples and nomadic peoples.For the Uzbeks or other Ming citizens, their life as the people of the empire is affluent and peaceful, but there are always a group of guys who want to rob their own sheep or rob their own wealth, which is absolutely not allowed.

Therefore, after the Zhongxia Military Region received the combat order, a large number of Fan Army soldiers returned to Jianjian to prepare. They were all full of enthusiasm for fighting and encouraged each other.

"Shoot into Persia and destroy those bandits!"

"Long live Daming!"

With farms and cooperatives as units, troops are assembled and then set off to the battlefield.But at this time, the relationship within Persia has not even been straightened out, and the preparations for sending troops to the Caucasus have not been completed.

(End of this chapter)