Kaufman was an engineer-turned-soldier who served as a battalion commander in the Russian army's engineering battalion during the Crimean War. Not the aristocrats of St. Petersburg who had never fought and seen blood. It was hard for him to imagine how an army could have been fighting on the front line for more than two years without logistical support!

He was already a little curious about Liu Xian. And now that Liu Xian has unexpectedly killed Ili, almost destroying the plan of annexing Ili that Tsarist Russia has been planning for a long time, Kaufman is even more curious about Liu Xian.

Erie's story was quickly conveyed by Kaufman to St. Petersburg. Whether or not to march into Ili had to be decided by Alexander II himself, and although the Qing Empire was weak, it was not a small country that could be easily conquered by the Turkestan Viceroyalty of the Three Central Asian Countries.

The Russian Empire in 1869 in the Western calendar. The shocks brought about by the political reforms of eight years ago have slowly subsided, but as a result of the liberalization of political and social life in Russia, the number of Narodniks in the Russian Empire has increased dramatically. And terrorist activities are on the rise, and many Narodniks are trying to change Russian society by assassinating tsars and dignitaries. However, the political situation in the Russian Empire remained largely stable, and the revival of Tsarist Russia in the second half of the 19th century had begun to see the light of day.

Kaufman's telegram reached St. Petersburg, but Tsar Alexander II was not in the summer palace at this time. However, there are people in the palace who know where Alexander II has gone now.

In 184!0 A.D., when the Qing Empire in the East was opened by the British cannons, the young Alexander II met the 15-year-old Maximilian of Hesse-Rhine of Prussia in Paris. William Minnie. Augusta. Sophie. Princess Mary. It was love at first sight. After talking to his father, Alexander II was betrothed to Maria, and on April 16, 1841, the two were married in Moscow. Mary was elegantly behaved. Won the favor of the people in the tsar's court. The two have been married and have had six sons and two daughters. However, four years earlier, in 1865, Alexander II's love life had taken a huge turn, and he was madly infatuated with the young Catherine. Mikhailovna. Dolgoruskaya. Whether Alexander II was greedy for beauty, or really fell in love with Dolgorukaya. By the time had come to this, Dolgorukaya had already given birth to an illegitimate child for Alexander II.

The tsar was not in the summer palace. Where he went, the attendants in the palace knew it. Soon Kaufman's telegram was delivered to Alexander II.

Alexander II, disturbed by the sudden disturbance, was distracted by the turn of events in Kaufman's telegram appeal before he could get angry.

Get up on the way back to the summer palace. Alexander II gave the order to summon the ministers of the state. A royal council was then held in the summer palace, and in the fourth hour of Kaufman's telegram reaching St. Petersburg, an order agreeing to war was sent from St. Petersburg to Tashkent.

Alexander II decided to take Ili, a position that was crucial. It can clamp the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains. It can also explore Xinjiang and be a bridgehead rich in products. The excuse given to Kaufman was to call the Albane tribe of Kazakhs who had migrated to Xinjiang many years ago, who could not bear the oppression of Tsarist Russia many years ago, as "fugitives" and pursued them.

However, Alexander II also made it important that the Andijan affair was put on hold for the time being, and the military conflict with the Qing army was limited to Ili.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty has not yet fallen to the point of being slaughtered and allowed to be slaughtered and mermaid meat thirty years later.

Kaufman ordered the governor of the Seven Rivers region, Golpakovsky, to attack. Golpakovsky, like a rain in a dry land for a long time, was overjoyed and immediately commanded the Russian army to advance eastward from Borohugil. The Ili indigenous rebels sniped at the invading Russian army on the north and south banks of the Ili River at the same time.

North Shore. The indigenous army was cut off from the water source and at one point drove the Russian army out of Khorgos. South. The indigenous army repelled the first round of Russian attacks and repelled the enemy at Ketemen, but was eventually defeated by artillery bombardment. After that, the Russian army concentrated its main forces on the north bank. The indigenous army also gathered more than 5,000 people, but after all, it was a rabble, and they only knew how to go straight up, so they were killed and injured by a large number of Russian guns, and then they alerted each other and ran for their lives.

When the Russian army crossed the Khorgos River and invaded Gongchen Huocheng, Liu Xian also began to march into Huining City. Because he saw that although Golpakovsky was shouting fiercely, in fact, in order to win the hearts of the people and occupy Ili forever, the Russian army not only did not kill the surrendered army or the natives, but also sent medical personnel with the army to rescue the wounded and disabled. At the beginning, the Ili natives who were still fighting with the Russian army endlessly, and many indigenous armies have surrendered one after another.

Liu Xian felt helpless. He didn't believe that the tiger of Tsarist Russia had really begun to eat vegetarian and chant Buddha, and he could only say that Tsarist Russia was quite good at invading. Know what to do to minimize the resistance of the place. And as for what will be like this in the future, isn't it obvious?

Liu Xian immediately occupied the high ground and bombarded the stronghold of the defenders of Huining City. The two leaders of the indigenous army, Zhao and La, hurriedly led their subordinates to haul several old-style cannons to meet the battle. These "marshals" who knew nothing about military affairs and had an extremely strong sense of faith, knowing that their artillery fire was inferior to the expeditionary army, competed whimsically, and when the real sword and real gun were approaching, they stupidly turned to the "true god", and hurriedly led their subordinates to do salutes before going to war, bowed down to the air, prayed for the blessing of the true god, and named each cannon "Da Yi Ma Mu", "Two Yi Ma Mu", and "Three Yi Ma Mu" in turn...... And so on, and then ignite and launch.

Of course, the true gods can't be spiritual, and it doesn't help to call them "Imamu", these old artillery cannons are not as good as the range of mortars, and the indigenous army is completely vulnerable. After the failure of the resistance, the remnants hurriedly retreated into Ningyuan City, and then perished under Liu Xian's guns together with the natives of Ningyuan.

At this time, the remaining Suolon camp, Xibe camp and Manchu and Han residents in Ili had already rushed to Huiyuan City to attach. These people lived in extreme poverty, and under Abtra's rule, not only were taxes and unpaid servitude abundant, but human dignity was often trampled on. The indigenous leaders beat and scolded the people at will, and they really oppressed the remnants of Sauron, Xibe, and the Manchu and Han people, the backbone of the Manchu rule in Ili in the past. The so-called 'a hundred hardships are prepared, and the people are not able to make a living', this is the case. The Xibe people have almost all been robbed of their farming tools and their production, and they can only feed on wild vegetables and tree bark, and they have no source of cloth, and their clothes are ragged and difficult to cover. It is conceivable that in this case, Liu Xianam's army to Ili was a matter of collective inspiration for them.

Although the Soren Battalion and the Xibe Battalion suffered heavy losses in the previous battles with the indigenous army, the combined efforts of the two clans still provided Liu Xian with a thousand troops, plus Manchu and Han immigrants. Five years ago, when Xinjiang was not in turmoil, Ili was one of the four major places of exile in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the families and descendants of the convicts had a population of more than 100,000 people. Coupled with the remnants of Manchu and Han officers and soldiers, their dependents and descendants, the total number is at most 10,000 people, and there are more than 5,000 people who rushed to Huiyuan City these days, but more than half of them are young and strong men, and more than 2,000 people directly joined the army!

Liu Xian estimated that this would happen before he broke into Ili, look at the remnants of the Manchu and Han in southern Xinjiang after being slaughtered again and again, except for the Manchu and Han people in the Turhut and Heshute tribes, the total number of Manchu and Han remnants in the seven cities of southern Xinjiang did not exceed 10,000, and there were still very few of them who were young and strong, so there were thousands of people who asked to join the army. Liu Xian is now preparing the fourth, fifth, and sixth brigades of the hussar battalion infantry, of which the fourth brigade is composed of pure Manchu and Han relics.

In terms of physical elements and combat training, the Fourth Brigade was not the best among the three brigades, but it was the turn of the drill on the battlefield, and the combat effectiveness of the Fourth Brigade was definitely the strongest among the three newly formed infantry brigades. That style can only be described as furious and fearless!

Before Liu Xian left Ili, he carried a thousand Enfield M1853 rifles with the army, but he didn't expect that it was completely insufficient! (To be continued......) R1292