3. Robbery while the fire is burning (4)

But at this time, the Russian state in the north gradually became stronger, and when the Manchu Qing Dynasty was just emerging, they sent an expeditionary force to cross the Outer Khingan Mountains and occupy the north bank of the Heilongjiang River. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 At this time, the Qing soldiers were busy entering the customs and had no time to take care of it, and the Russian general Kabaro brought hundreds of Russian soldiers to occupy Yaksa on the north bank of the Heilongjiang River, and built the city with earth and sent troops to garrison it. This is not only that, the Russian army continued down the Heilongjiang River by separate routes, and was repulsed by the Qing capital Ming Andali and Shaerhuda successively, but Yaksa was still occupied by him.

In the twenty-first year of Kangxi's reign, the three feudatories were flattened one after another, and Kangxi wanted to expel the Russians who invaded the territory, so he first sent Langtan, the deputy commander, to cross the Heilongjiang River to reconnoiter the geographical situation of Yaksa in the name of hunting. Soon, Lang Tan came back and reported that the Russian army did not have many troops and was easy to sweep. Kangxi then decided to expel the Russians, and first ordered the head of the household, Isanga, to Ningguta to supervise the construction of the big ship. Two cities, Mergen and Qiqihar, were built, and ten post stations were added to order the war to transport military rations by land and water. Then, he sent Sabusu as the general of Heilongjiang to prepare for war, and at the same time made the Mongolian Khan of Chechnya cut off trade with Russia.

In the twenty-second year of Kangxi, a Russian general named Molinik, led more than 60 Cossack soldiers from the city of Yaksa, and when he arrived at the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River, he happened to encounter a Qing Dynasty patrol ship, and more than 60 Cossack soldiers were all captured. Molinik was also captured and sent to Qiqihar to be imprisoned.

In the twenty-third year of Kangxi, the Qing soldiers went to the city of Yaksa to persuade them to surrender, but the Russian army refused to surrender.

In the twenty-fourth year of Kangxi, Peng Chun, the commander of the Qing Dynasty, led the northern expedition of the land and water armies, of which the army had about 10,000 people, and brought 200 giant cannons, 5,000 naval troops, and more than 100 warships. The Russian general Tolbuzin decided to hold on to Yaksa, but his men had only about 400 troops. Peng Chun ordered him to give up Tucheng and return home with his troops. Tolbuzin fought bravely and skillfully, and refused to obey. The Qing soldiers then bombarded the city with artillery, and Tolbuzin opened the city to meet it, and his arrogance was very arrogant. After some scuffle, the Russian army was defeated and had to give up the land it occupied and retreat to Nebuchu. Peng Chun then ordered the soldiers to destroy the earthen city and lead the troops to victory.

In the following year, Tolbuzin went to Yaksa again with the army commander Saebo Eaton, and re-erected the earthen ramparts and garrisoned them to defend them. Peng Chun led another 8,000 troops and transported 400 cannons to attack. Tolbuzin ordered Boyton to hold the earthen fortress, and he led his subordinates to fight desperately, he only had more than 400 people, and the previous time there were dozens of casualties, and now there are only more than 300 people left, but they can clash with 8,000 Qing soldiers. The Qing soldiers surrounded this side, and they rushed to that side, and when they surrounded that side, he slipped to this side again. After tossing for a while, Peng Chun became anxious and ordered his subordinates to open fire, but Tolbuzin didn't care about life or death, and actually rushed up to seize the gunner. Only a bang was heard, and Tolbuzin was hit by a shell and fell to the ground, and the Russians fled back into the earthen fortress they had built.

Boyton's men numbered only one or two hundred, and these men, together with the remnants of Tolbuzin's men, defended the fortifications. The Qing soldiers bombarded the earthen fortress with cannons, so he dug a hole in the ground to avoid the shells, and when the shells came, they hid in them, and the shells stopped and drilled out, and as soon as the earthen fortresses were damaged, they were immediately repaired.

During this period, the envoys who happened to come from the Netherlands to pay tribute were also in the capital, claiming to be adjacent to Russia and willing to act as mediators. Kangxi then asked the Dutch envoy to send a letter to Russia, in which he condemned Russia's unprovoked invasion of the border areas. Soon after, he received a reply from the Russian Emperor Peter the Great, saying that the conflict had been caused by the incomprehension of Chinese and Russian languages, and that it had now been understood that it was caused by the provocation of the people on the border, so he would send envoys to the border to demarcate the line, but asked to lift the siege of Yaksa first.

Kangxi agreed to negotiate peace because of the request of the Russian Emperor Peter to stop the army, and ordered Peng Chun to retreat for the time being. So Russia sent Minister Plenipotentiary Fei Yaodoro to the territory of the Tushetu Khan of Outer Mongolia, and then sent people to Beijing to ask Beijing to send officials for consultations. Kangxi ordered the Minister of the Interior, Suo Etu, and others to deal with it. After Suo'etu set out, because he heard that Tushetu was at war with Dzungaria, and the transportation was inconvenient, he turned back to the capital, sent his entourage out of the country by detour, and agreed with the Russian envoys to use Nebuchu as the meeting place for peace. So, Suo Etu was ordered to go to Nebuchu again, brought Western priests Zhang Cheng and Xu Risheng as translators, and prepared more than 10,000 elite soldiers, advancing by land and water, and reaching directly outside the city of Nebuchu. The Russian envoy Fei Yaodoro also led a thousand men to Nebuchu, and when he saw the lineup of the Qing envoys, his face was a little afraid. The next day the peace negotiations began, and the envoys and retinues of the two countries gathered together, and the guards consisted of more than 200 soldiers each, all armed with weapons, standing on both sides. The Russian envoy began to put forward a plan, but Suo Etu did not understand what he was saying, and after Zhang Cheng's translation, he learned that he wanted to return the south bank of the Heilongjiang River to the Qing Dynasty and the north bank to Russia. Suo Etu said: "How can there be such a reason, if Russia wants to negotiate peace now, it must go from Yaksa in the east to Nebuchu in the west, and all the Heilongjiang areas occupied by Russia must belong to us." ”

The Russian envoy Fei Yaoduoluo also couldn't understand Suo Etu's words, Zhang Cheng translated it and showed it to him, and he shook his head after reading it. Seeing that he could not reach an agreement, Soetu turned around and went back to the camp. The next day, there was another discussion, and Suo Etu gave in slightly, intending to make Nebuchu the boundary between the two countries, but the Russian envoy still did not agree, and Suo Etu returned to the camp again in high spirits. Later, after Zhang Cheng's mediation back and forth, Suo Etu gave in a little bit, and the north was bounded by the Gelbiqi River and the Outer Khingan Mountains, and the south was bounded by the Ergun River, and all the fortresses south of the Ergun River in Russia had to be moved to the north of the river. The Russian envoy still insisted on disagreeing, and later, after many negotiations and arguments on the basis of reasoning, the Russian envoy had no choice but to accept it. After the treaty was concluded, the two sides made boundary markers to the east of the Gelbiqi River and the south of the Ergun River, and used five languages, including Manchu, Han, Mongolian, Latin and Russian, which was the Sino-Russian Treaty of Nebuchu. So far, China and Russia have not been at war for more than 100 years, and the border has remained largely peaceful.

Hearing this, Xingzhen thought about the previous story and the current situation in Tsarist Russia, and after a little thought, she smiled and said: "Originally, the concubine didn't know what the emperor was annoying about, but now that she knows, she wants to invite the emperor to watch the play and listen to the music." ”

"What does the queen mean by this?" Xianfeng was a little impatient, hasn't the queen always thought about the country? Why do you know the general situation so much today?

Xingzhen saw that Xianfeng was annoyed, so don't stop joking, "Don't worry, the emperor, the concubine didn't know about this before, but it happened that she heard something from outside a few days ago, which can make the emperor relax." ”