The middle detachment of the Northeast Field Army, which swept north, successfully captured the Yeniseisk fortress and made a good start for the troops. A few days later, the sweeping units of the East Road Detachment and the West Road Detachment also sent advance assault troops one after another.

After the destruction of the Siberian Khanate, the Russian colonizers continued to advance eastward, and it took only nearly 40 years to occupy the three major Siberian river systems: the Ob, Yenisei and Lena rivers.

Among them, the Western Route detachment started from the area of the mouth of the Vitim River in the Lena River, and mainly swept along the Lena River, and the areas along the Velyuy, Olekma, Ardan, and Olenek rivers, which were extremely tributaries, compared to the Yeseny and Ob rivers, the Russian forces in this area were few.

As early as 1628, the Russian nobleman Samson Navatsky led the first expedition to the Lena River valley to reconnoitre, and in 1638 the Russian government established the Yakutsk Overseer, appointing Golovin as the first Overseer.

After the Russian occupation of the Lena River, thousands of colonists and merchants came and went here every year, and a large number of precious mink skins were seized from here, and it is recorded that more than 146,000 mink skins were captured at the highest annual rate, and 20,000 or 30,000 mink skins were shipped out every year, which made the Moscow treasury gain great benefits.

The Eastern Route Detachment set out from the base of the Tom River on the Ob River and swept along the Ob River, along the Irtysh River, the Tom River, the Katun River, the Keti River and the Wakh River.

The Ob River valley belonged to the Siberian Khanate, and Russia developed this region relatively early, with the establishment of Tyumen in 1586, Tobolsk in 1587, Tara in 1594, Perem in 1592, Turinsk in 1600, and Mangatya in 1661, a "royal hereditary domain full of gold". Then use these strongholds as base camps to grab territory everywhere.

The establishment of the cities of Mangajieya and Tomsk marked the basic Russian occupation of the Ob River valley. The Russians established the Tobolsk Governorate in this region, and established a county system in 12 major towns.

The three sweeping detachments of the Northeast Field Army of the Far Eastern Army, taking advantage of the three major river systems of Siberia, took a large number of inland river steam deck barges and sailed to the north.

With the support of a large number of airship units. A fierce attack was launched on the Russian strongholds in the three major river basins of the Siberian region. The battle basically replicated the process of the capture of the Yeniseisk fortress by the middle detachment.

The Russians in Siberia were mostly wooden forts, armed with arquebuses and a small number of front-loading guns. It is quite easy to deal with the local Siberian natives who are poorly equipped with cold weapons. But in the face of the powerful artillery fire of the Far Eastern Army, and the Far Eastern Army armed to the teeth, it was basically a decoration.

The abundant waterways of Siberia brought extremely convenient conditions for the Far Eastern Army, and the detachments were taken in battalion units on river steam deck barges. Sweep the Russian strongholds on all rivers.

The commander of the Northeast Field Army gave a death order to the troops participating in the battle, that is, not to leave prisoners. The leaders of the various strongholds, as well as all the captives in the areas where the resistance was fierce, were to be brutally staked.

The Russian strongholds in various parts of Siberia were now considered to be bloody, and they could not have imagined that they would be attacked so fiercely. Because Siberia is vast and sparsely populated, Russia's forces in various places are very thin, and the sweeping detachments of the Far Eastern Army in three directions are very abundant. So that they have little time to react.

Although this sweeping campaign was defined by the Northeast Field Army of the Far East Army as a long-distance training exercise of actual combat. However, the various units of the Eastern Field who participated in the battle also attached great importance to this battle, and they attacked the Russian stronghold extremely fiercely.

The Russian invasion was disastrous for the indigenous people of Siberia, and the main force of the invasion was the brutal Cossacks, because of the vast territory and cold climate of Siberia. The environment is extremely harsh.

So the Cossacks who invaded the east simply could not carry enough provisions, and during the long Siberian winter, they could not even guarantee food for wintering. In addition to killing and looting everywhere in Siberia, they can barely survive the winter.

In 1630, the famous Cossack chieftain and the murderous "Pizarro" colonist Ivan Kalkin invaded the middle reaches of the Irim, Kuta and Lena rivers. Bloody massacre of local indigenous peoples. The captain of the musketeers, Pyotr Beketov, came to the Lena River in place of Kalkin, and he, like his predecessors, committed heinous crimes by burning and looting in the area.

After 1850, Russia took advantage of the decline of the Qing Dynasty in China and invaded the Heilongjiang River valley by force. In the Yaksa area, the Russians even used the Saurons as food, and they were simply man-eating demons.

Nikolaev captured Temple Street, brutally killed local residents of the Hezhen and Evenki ethnic groups, caused the Temple Street Massacre, and renamed it Nikolaevsk. At the same time, the Russian invaders drove the Oroqen residents of 64 Tun in the east of Hailan Pao into Heilongjiang to drown or kill, creating the Hailan Pao tragedy!

It can be seen that foreign expansion was not only the case of successive tsars, but also of the Russian people. Expansion and aggression have penetrated deep into the marrow of the Russians, and it is probably more appropriate to say that the Russians are aggressive. It was with this expansion in Asia that Russia left the rest of Europe far behind and became the largest country in the world.

After the middle of the 19th century, Tsarist Russia, which had completely exposed the essence of a second-rate country in Europe, easily snatched the territory that China had laid down for thousands of years from the Qing Dynasty.

Even in the 17th century, there was a great chaos in Tsarist Russia, so they still relied on civilian forces to easily take the land of the Baikal basin from the hands of Kangxi, the "first emperor of the ages", which also made Tsarist Russia have a stronghold in Eastern Siberia.

Tsar Nicholas I committed suicide when he lost his land, and our great "Emperor of the Ages" Kangxi, who lost such a large piece of land, still has many soft-boned literati to this day, saying how great he is.

While the Far Eastern Army swept away the Russian strongholds in Siberia, it also collected and reorganized the local indigenous people of Siberia. The Far Eastern Army adopted a relatively moderate policy towards the local natives who actively cooperated.

The natives of the Outer Northeast, who followed closely behind the Far Eastern Army, also formed a huge army of northward migration and advanced all the way north. A large number of Siberian natives of various nationalities who have been reorganized and reorganized have been placed in various grassroots detachments.

All parts of Siberia also adopted an extremely cruel policy of extermination against the natives of the Far East, who did not cooperate and even dared to confront them. It is also the way of the nomads of the northern steppes, killing all the men who are higher than the wheels. (To be continued.) )