Chapter 485: Wooden Stake (Second Watch)
Human history is divided into the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, and the history of Tsarist Russia's colonization of Siberia and the Far East can also be divided into similar stages according to the tools and means used, which can be divided into the "Log Age" and the "Iron Age".
Before the Industrial Revolution, the colonies were all made of wood, and the highest skilled job among the colonists was carpenter. Russia successfully smashed more than 20 wooden stakes in the vast Siberia and the Far East through a few dozen log "walled cities", opening the era of bloody colonization of Siberia and the Far East. After the Industrial Revolution, Russia's colonization of Siberia and the Far East entered the Iron Age, and the colonists were already railway engineers, bridge engineers, tunnel engineers, and railway survey and design experts. However, at present, Russia has only sent a few such people, and a large number of relevant personnel from North Manchuria have poured into the Outer Northeast.
The Russian occupation of the vast Siberia and the Far East was not complicated, from the end of the 16th century to the end of the 17th century, when it crossed the Ural Mountains and reached the Pacific coast at the end of the 17th century, it was only about a hundred years, and about 20 log so-called "walled cities" and strongholds were built intermittently. Its efficiency is not as good as the Mongolian expedition to Europe for more than 20 years, and its more than 20 strongholds, whether it is facilities or manpower allocation, are not as good as the Eurasian Wanli Post Station of the Mongols. But they also had their successes, they stood and held on to it.
The Mongols fought all the way to Europe, and the Russians who fought back were much easier. The Russians encountered the Xiaoice Age, Siberia and the Far East were too cold, and local residents moved south into the pass, allowing the Russians to easily occupy large areas of no man's land. So the expansion of the Russians is not so much a colonial war as a grand enclosure campaign. The Russians carried out the largest enclosure movement in history through the connection of more than 20 "cities", "walled walls" and post stations that were separated by 108,000 miles and could hardly echo each other.
The vast expanses of Siberia and the Far East are almost no-man's land, and there is no national power in the true sense of the word. Many ethnic groups and tribes are still in primitive societies, and even the Manchu and Mongolian ethnic groups in the south have basically failed to carry out effective defense and counterattack because of the short-sightedness and backward thinking of the rulers, and their lack of vigilance against uninvited guests from afar. Russia also succeeded in strategically deceiving and paralyzing its biggest rival, the Manchu government, which failed to eradicate it in the age of the weakest log in Tsarist Russia, leaving endless troubles for future generations.
Therefore, the so-called colonization and expansion of Tsarist Russia was almost a blank sheet of paper, arbitrarily carrying out its own planning and design, and from the very beginning of its development in Siberia, the Tsarist government's policy of "purposeful" and "planned" economic and urban facilities was implemented. In the development of Siberia and the Far East, the organs of state power also played a considerable role in this process, and the newly conquered regions were consolidated by widespread distribution and well-planned urban construction.
The construction of the Russians was roughly divided into three stages. The first stage was the establishment of fortified winter camps for the looting of furs, and if no effective resistance was encountered, the next step was the construction of more functional fortified cities. Once it had gained a foothold and achieved emigration (including the exile of prisoners), the next step was to build the so-called castle out of logs.
After crossing the Ural Mountains at the end of the 16th century, the Russians established several forts on the Ob River as strongholds, and from this point they raided the area between the Ob and Yenisei rivers adjacent to the east. Then a second group of strongholds was established on the Yenisei River and its exchanges, such as Krasnoyarsk, Yeniseisk, Mangajieya, Tomsk, etc. Later, a stronghold was established on the Lena River, and Yakutsk became the most important base there. It was from here that the "expeditions" sent to the Pacific coast, the Baikal and Amur regions departed. Irkutsk and Nebuchu were founded in the second half of the 17th century. These strongholds were both bases for the advance of the Russians and post stations for the Russians, and each of them was of great importance.
It is a pity that the Eurasian railway of the Russians has not yet been built, and the large-scale population migration has not yet been realized, and in front of Bozhtu is still a no-man's land of more than 20 strongholds. In these no-man's lands, there are very few yellow tribes scattered, and it is impossible to determine what kind of ethnic group they are. However, there is a very good point, that is, these old Maozi did not assimilate and educate the aborigines, but cramped and scraped their bones to exploit them, causing the local aborigines to hate Lao Maozi to the core. Bo Ritu didn't have to worry that they would support Lao Maozi at all, but he could know some information from their mouths, and even get some supplies.
After spreading out the all-Russian map given to him by Goxinga and studying it for a long time, Bozhtu had a bold idea to uproot all the Russian strongholds along the Yenisei River and completely cut off the east of the Yenisei River from Russia. After pondering for a long time, the Mongolian fox Bozhtu decided to take a gamble. If he succeeds, he will be the first hero of this war, and then become the first general in Manchuria, and may even replace Tan Shaoguang as the chief of the general staff of the three services. If he fails, then there is no need to think about it, the cavalry under his command will definitely suffer heavy losses, Goxinga will remove him from his post and investigate him, and he will also become a sinner in all Mongolia. High risk, high return, Bo Ritu decided to gamble, don't miss the opportunity and don't come again!
After Bozhtu determined the strategic plan, he sent a long telegram to Goxinga of Hailan to report, and then without waiting for Goxinga's reply, he waved his army directly to Tomsk, the main transportation route of Russia. Hailan Pao's Guoxinga waited for a few days to receive such a telegram, and at the same time he could only lament the good luck of the Russians, he immediately called back to Bozhtu, completely rejecting Bozhtu's opinion, and demanding that Bozhtu march according to the established plan. However, the telegram was like a mud cow entering the sea and there was no response at all, and Guoxinga sent a telegram to urge, and even sent a telegram to Kulen to inquire about the situation, but no clear news came back.
"It's done! General, Bozhtu may not have waited for your reply and marched directly according to his own plan. The radio station is too big for him to turn on while he is on the march, so he can't reply to you! The more Tan Shaoguang thought about it, the more wrong it became, and he immediately judged that Bo Ritu had sent troops privately.
"Bozhtu, bastard! His plan is good, but the army needs to march back and forth for thousands of miles in a short period of time, and our elite in a hundred battles can't do it, how can a group of recruits under his command do it. Even if he is lucky, Tomsk, Yeniseisk and other places are too far away from our mainland and there is no railway, so how can he supply them after dividing his troops and defending them. If there were no supplies, what difference would there be between his Fifth Army Group and being in the Dead Land! "Guo Xing'a was so violent that there was no way at all, if Bo Ritu really sent troops privately, Guo Xing'a couldn't arrest him right now.
"Send a telegram to the 100 Project Command and let them complete the miniaturization of the radio station as soon as possible, don't do this bastard again!" Guo Xinga could only lose his temper at the radio.