Chapter 10050 Master, the ancestors are also wide!
In just two months, more than 10 Russian spies from the East were brutally 'killed', along with several 'front-line commanders' of Russian intelligence services. Unfortunately, because of the heavy snowfall, these news were reported to Moscow much later, and they were uneven, and they did not attract the attention of the Moscow branch of the Russian intelligence agency at the beginning.
The death of so many front-line intelligence backbones and leaders is absolutely not accidental, this is the Chinese doing it. And what does that mean?
Unfortunately, even if this news was sent to St. Petersburg by them, they would not have time to pay attention to Alexander I.
The French have been unabashedly arranging military stations in the Russian border area to stock up on military supplies. At the same time, the Poles were gathering, Polish divisions were formed, and then in intense training.
Napoleon gathered an army of more than 500,000 men, the number of French troops here was about 300,000, and the rest of the troops were vassals, and the largest number of troops were Poles.
Napoleon also believed that only the Poles could be trusted the most among the vassals, because the Poles were fighting for their own destiny.
Napoleon promised that after victory in the war against Russia, he would rebuild Poland.
This promise was not only a great incentive for the nobles of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw, but also for the millions of people.
Friedrich August I of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw supported the formation of the Polish army, and Marshal Poniatowski, who was in charge of the government in Warsaw, was the leader of the Polish army. His deputy is Tadeusz Kosciuszko, who fought alongside him more than a decade ago against the Russian invasion in Ukraine in 1792.
Poniatowski and Tadeusz Kosciuszko are two of the most famous heroes of Poland, the former who fought for Poland since his withdrawal from the Austrian army, and the latter who traveled extensively in Europe and North America. He served for seven years in the Continental Army, building fortifications for the United States, including Fort West Point, before Kościuszko was promoted to brigadier general by Congress and granted American citizenship. He became a U.S. citizen and was given a bit of land, and was granted permission to join the prestigious Cincinnati Society and the American Philosophical Association.
In a country of great disaster, in a country that has sunk into the abyss and cannot see the light, Tadeusz Kosciuszko's success in the United States makes him as great as a hero.
This is just like Yang Zhenning at the beginning, when China was far behind the world, Yang Zhenning came to the forefront of the world's science and technology, and he has received countless praises in China. It's all the same!
Now Poniatowski was awarded the rank of commander of the Fifth Army (45,000 men) of the French Empire by Napoleon, after successfully leading the battle against Archduke Ferdinand in Galicia during the entire Austrian campaign in 1809. After suffering a defeat in battle and being forced to abandon Warsaw, he regrouped and pursued a series of bold tactics to counterattack the Austrians, and succeeded in recapturing Lublin, Sandomir, Zamošić and Brody. Napoleon was impressed by his great achievements and awarded him the Sword of Honor. Poniatowski's military talent was recognized by Napoleon, and the Fifth Army also consisted entirely of Poles and Saxons.
Tadeusz Kosciuszko was brought in by Poniatowsky as his deputy, and this decision was approved by Napoleon, who was also awarded the rank of brigadier general by Napoleon.
At the moment when the expedition to Russia was imminent, Napoleon was trying his best to win over Poland, who made Poland and Russia have an unending hatred.
Napoleon was not wrong in believing that only the Poles, apart from the French, were the most loyal to him. In 1813, after the crushing defeat of Napoleon's expedition to Russia, Poniatowski still shed blood for the French Empire as identified by the Allies. He led a loyal Polish army to Germany to continue the fight for France, and took part in the Battle of Leipzig, eventually riding into the Elster River for prisoners, and then crushing him to his death because the horses failed to carry him to the other side, but instead crushed him in the river.
He was the last Marshal of the Reich to be canonized by Napoleon, was he really that loyal to Napoleon? No, it's only because Poland's hopes were pinned exclusively on Napoleon.
At this moment, the European continent was like a long-accumulated volcano about to erupt, and Alexander I, although he was worried about the East and the Ottomans, really did not have the energy to look at the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea. Especially on the shores of the Caspian Sea in the East. He had a fear in his heart that Astrakhan, which had been controlled by the Russians two hundred and fifty years ago, would probably be lost from his hands this time. There is a good chance that the land will once again return to the nomads.
Once the autumn official residence of the Golden Horde, Astrakhan was a large commercial center on the way from Persia and India to the Russian principalities and Europe. In 1558, the army of Ivan IV bloodlessly captured Astrakhan and incorporated it into the territory of Muscovy. Soon after, the Tsar ordered the city to be relocated to the opposite bank downstream, in order to make it easier to defend itself against the annoying neighbors. Between 1582 and 1589, the first white stone Kremlin in the lower Volga was built on the new site. In Ancient Rus', high-walled fortresses with guard posts were called the Kremlin. The Kremlin has 7 towers, 3 of which have access gates. In this way, Astrakhan became an outpost in the south of Russia.
Although two hundred and fifty years have passed, Russia has not completely conquered the Caspian Sea, their steps to the south are blocked by the Caucasus Mountains, and the steps to the east are just about to enter the harvest season, and a thigh is completely cut off by the Chinese.
And now, Alexander I suspects that he may well not be able to keep even the Caspian Sea, or even the Volga.
Alexander I's heart was like a knife, but he could only continue to choose to ignore the Caspian Sea, hoping that the stone Kremlin built that year would stop the Chinese for Russia.
According to the British, Napoleon had mobilized only 300,000 French soldiers, and their previous estimate of 400,000 troops was obviously an erroneous figure, which was at least 500,000 troops.
Alexander I was under a lot of pressure!
To resist Napoleon, he had amassed more than 250,000 troops to the western regions of Russia, and he was confident that he would gather 300,000 troops before the war. However, after the huge Russia has reduced its army by 300,000 troops, its military power in the East, the Caucasus, and the Black Sea basin will be needed to the extreme.
Just a Russia, Alexander I still had the confidence to resist, but to add the Ottomans and the Chinese, Alexander I's hair would be gray.
Now they need more than just military aid from the British, they need reinforcements who can fight the war.
Alexander I had been sending people to contact Bernadotte in the hope of achieving peace with Sweden, but although Bernadotte was unwilling to offend the British, they were clearly not willing to offend the French.
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In April 1812, teams of cavalry and armies were converging towards Central Asia.
Chen Han's troops this time were not very large, a total of 100,000 people. And the troops dispatched by the Seven Khanates were not very many, also 100,000 people. It's just that they need to be ready to send out a second group of people at all times.
Most of the army of the 100,000 Khanate was cavalry, and Chen Han's army of 100,000 also had a lot of cavalry, and Dong Wei, the cavalry commander in charge of commanding the coalition army, came to the west bank of the Aral Sea in March.
The commander-in-chief of this army is Wei Baocheng, the commander-in-chief of the front line is Chen Wei, and Shen Shiying is still the commander-in-chief.
Chen Ming is a little easy to use the old man. It's not that he doesn't give newcomers a chance to get ahead, but that he thinks the old man is reliable. The Shaozhuang faction led by Wei Baocheng, Deng Yun, Chen Wei, Dong Wei, Pan Chang, Shen Shiying, etc., can already remove the word 'less'. These old people have withdrawn from the army one after another, whether they are Gao Pingshan, Huang Jie, Chen Qi, Chen Yongsheng, Chen Erbao, Chen Wenzan, Chen Jianbai, Chen Hongtao, Huang An, Gao Jinghui, Lu Long, Shi Meng, they all retired. Some have been sick and died for several years, such as Shi Meng.
Chen Ming summoned Wei Baocheng, and they were already very handy. And in several wars in the Americas, they fought very well.
By May, the Ural River basin.
There has been a certain amount of clashes between the Russian troops patrolling the outposts and the troops of the Mongol Khanate.
The Turgut Khanate was very excited about the return to the Volga. They fled from the frontier and avoided the Dzungars, where they went to the Volga River, and they jumped out during the Sino-Russian War, and it has been many years since they left their 'hometown', and now they are going to kill again.
Wobashi was dead, and his son Tsering Namzal was just as positive.
Zeberk Dorji also died, and his son Lingdelek was just as warlike.
The other Mongol three khanates were also happy to reach the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea, as it was the homeland of the Golden Horde. The existence of the Golden Horde symbolized the glory of the Mongol Empire at its peak.
Regardless of whether the mentality of 'ancestors have also been broadened' is a kind of self-expectation, the Mongolians are happy to do so anyway.
The Kazakhs were also very fond of fighting the Russians, so that they could let the natives of the former Southern Three Khanates under their rule have a good look at their prestige. Isn't the Russian Empire, which once made the Southern Three Khanates bow their heads, now also trampled under their feet?
Regardless of whether this war was started by them or not, the Seven Khanates were happy to attack Russia anyway. Especially when Russia is unlucky.
China's influence on the Seven Khanates is undoubted, even if Russia does not have a threat from Europe, Chen Ming wants to start a war against Russia, and the Seven Khanates will only have a share on the top, now, how good.