Save the Bachelor of Heaven

 In the first month of the twenty-second year, a large army set off from the capital, passed through Yumen Pass and arrived in the Western Regions, and then attacked from the Western Regions. The army set out from the capital, passed through Shanhaiguan and arrived outside the customs, and then attacked from Yaksa.

All the tribes in Mongolia and the Western Regions, as well as the Yu family in the northeast and the Zhendong Protectorate in Japan, also sent troops to participate in the war, or provided food, grass and luggage...

The army gathered from Ili and followed them to the northwest and killed them. The army borrowed the road from Dayuzi. The so-called Dayuzi was separated from the Hasaka Khanate. There were also Zhongyuzi and Xiaoyuzi.

Among them, Dayuzi was annexed by the Junggar Khanate, and then Junggar was destroyed by the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, Dayuzi also became a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty. As for Zhongyuzi and Xiaoyuzi, in order to avoid being annexed by Jungar, they had submitted to the Rakshasa Kingdom in the seventeenth century.

But later, when Zhongyuzi and Xiaoyuzi saw Jungar being destroyed, they also submitted credentials to the Qing Dynasty willing to surrender.

In the past ten years, due to the destruction of the Dzungar Khanate, the Rakshasa Kingdom was ready to invade the Western Regions. Fortunately, successive Ili generals have kept Xiang Nan's instructions in mind and actively opened up territories to resist the infiltration of the Rakshasa Kingdom.

 In addition, in the past ten years, the main direction of the Rakshasa Kingdom's attack has been Europe, and there have been many frictions with Sweden, Finland, Prussia and other countries.

In comparison, they are not that concerned about the Far East. Therefore, in the past ten years, the Rakshasa Kingdom has not made much progress in attacking and infiltrating the Northeast and Western Regions. Therefore, when Xiang Nan led his army on the expedition, he basically encountered no enemies along the way. Too much resistance.

 Soon the coalition forces had captured Bisk. This is a military fortress built by the Rakshasa Kingdom in 1709, and it was used as a base to launch attacks to the east and south.

However, there were less than a thousand Rakshasa troops in this military fortress, so they were quickly wiped out. Afterwards, the coalition forces continued to set off.

At the same time, Xiang Nan also received battle reports from the Eastern Route Army. They had successively captured many Rakshasa Army fortresses such as Irkutsk, Barguzin, Nerchinsk, and Brazsk, and also encircled the points for reinforcements. By chance, They set up an ambush and defeated the main force of the Rakshasa army that came to support them, and achieved a great victory.

Xiang Nan specially wrote an imperial edict to commend him, and then gave it to Agui with a golden eagle.

Over the years, he has learned from the Heavenly Book how to gather animals and control birds, and has collected a large number of raptors as messengers.

Golden eagles, peregrine falcons, falcons, goshawks, etc. can fly hundreds of miles a day. Therefore, using them as messengers can communicate within a few days even across thousands of mountains and rivers. Only in this way can we control the huge s country.

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 After capturing Bisk, the army took a short rest and then continued to set off.

 Led by the captives of the Rakshasa Kingdom, they successively eliminated the Rakshasa Kingdom’s strongholds in Central Asia and the Far East.

 In fact, the power of the Rakshasa Kingdom in Central Asia and the Far East is not very strong. For example, in the Battle of Yaksa during the Kangxi period, the Rakshasa Kingdom's army only had a few hundred people.

 The reason why they can still invade such large areas of territory is actually very simple. Those places are basically barren land.

For example, in Siberia, the lowest temperature in winter is as high as minus 70 degrees Celsius, and even the average summer temperature is only 20 degrees Celsius, and almost nine months of the year are below freezing. It is basically difficult for ordinary people to survive here.

 In ancient times, only the Daur, Sauron, and Tungus people lived there, and it was basically an uninhabited land.

Even though Qianlong was known as the Perfect Old Man and had great military exploits, he never thought of taking back that territory. Because people at the time thought that land was of little value.

However, Xiang Nan knew that Siberia was a treasure land, and its forest resources, mineral resources, animal resources, and water resources were all very valuable.

There is no way to mine it now. In a few hundred years, when technology develops to a certain level, it will definitely be a piece of cake.

After conquering Bisk, Xiang Nan continued to march northwest and captured the city of Tomsk.

Tomsk was founded in 1604. It was originally the territory of the Tatars. Later, in order to avoid the attack of Oara, the Tatars took refuge in the emperor of the Rakshasa Kingdom and gave up this territory.

 Subsequently, the Rakshasa Kingdom established a stronghold here to resist the attack of Wala. The Oara is now the Erut tribe and the Oirat tribe of Mongolia, while the Tatar tribe is the Horqin tribe, Chahar tribe, etc.

 So it is reasonable and legal for Xiang Nan, as the emperor of Mongolia, to take back the territory that was occupied by the Rakshasa Kingdom a hundred years ago.

The city of Tomsk is just a city built of wood, which is good at defending against the nomads’ bows, arrows and cavalry. But faced with the cannon's bombardment, it couldn't even withstand a single blow.

The city gate was blasted open with one cannon, and then the Mongolian soldiers participating in the battle rushed in through the broken city gate. For these soldiers, this was a rare opportunity to make a fortune.

 Because Xiang Nan is generous, each person has one tael of silver. For Mongolian soldiers, this is a huge fortune. Of course, having Mongolian soldiers charge into battle can also reduce the losses of the Qing army as much as possible.

Xiang Nanke did not want to cause casualties to the Qing army. After all, these soldiers were elites. They all graduated from military preparation schools and had knowledge, culture, discipline, and ideals.

 The key is that they are all trained with live ammunition, and each of them has fired an average of 300 rounds of ammunition. And the price of these three hundred rounds of bullets is already more than thirty taels of silver.

 Therefore, the New Army is just like the current pilots. It is difficult to train one, and naturally it is not willing to let them work hard. Therefore, every time the Qing army went into battle, they would first use artillery to clear the way, then use other armies to rush forward, and finally the Qing army would clean up the mess.

Of course, when you really encounter a tough battle, you still have to make sacrifices.

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 After capturing the city of Tomsk, the army continued westward and captured Omsk.

 This is a fortress built in 1706, located at the confluence of the Om River and the Irtysh River.

After capturing Omsk, the army took a short rest and then went north again to capture the city of Tyumen.

This city is the largest city in the Rakshasa Kingdom east of the Ural River. It was built in 1586 and has a history of two hundred years. It has a population of 50,000.

After Xiang Nan's army captured Tyumen City, the army rested there for three days and then immediately moved westward to attack Yekaterinburg.

 Ekaterinburg was founded in 1723 and named after Catherine I. Since its establishment, it has been the most important city in the eastern part of the Rakshasa Kingdom. It not only has a population of hundreds of thousands, but also has the first iron smelting plant in the Rakshasa Kingdom.

Nearly 30% of the steel needed by the Rakshasa Kingdom is smelted from it. It can be said that this is an important steel city in the Rakshasa Kingdom. Once it is lost, the impact will be significant.

 The more critical point is that Yekaterinburg is only 3,200 miles away from the capital of the Rakshasa Kingdom, which is equivalent to the distance from the capital to Suzhou and Hangzhou.

If you hurry up, you can defeat the capital of the Rakshasa Kingdom within a week, so it is quite dangerous.

 And Xiang Nan just wanted to take over the fortress of Yekaterinburg before the Rakshasa Kingdom had time to react. When the time comes, one will capture the city to make up for the lack of logistics; the other will be able to wait for work and annihilate all the Rakshasa Kingdom's armies that came to resist.