3385 Ili Valley
No one knew what happened, but Hu Laosan took them and did not enter the city at all, but entered a forage farm outside the city.
The maze-like forage yard is piled with hay for countless livestock to eat during the winter. One-third of the forage from Karen in the 27 Karen areas are stored here.
After finding the place where he was leeing, Uncle Hu panted and said, "Children, don't spend the night here, the Tsarist Russians are about to call him!"
"I heard from the herdsmen that there are more than 20,000 Tsarist Russian Cossack cavalry on the Ala Lake for more than half a year, and there are often more troops!"
"This winter is too cold. Those Cossacks have to ask for money for food and food when they eat horses. The poor have made up their minds to capture our General Yili's mansion. You can leave quickly..."
"Either tonight or tomorrow, just to face the snowfall for three consecutive days, those Cossacks can't stand it!"
In Uncle Hu San's mouth, a terrifying Western Region appeared in front of people!
The strategic location of the Yili River Valley is very important. It is a triangular alluvial plain. You should know that the Tianshan Mountains are not from east to west.
Instead, it penetrates from the southwest to the northeast. The starting point of the western section of the Tianshan Mountains and the starting point of the western section of the Kunlun Mountains are actually connected, both of which are extensions of the Pamir Plateau.
The Tianshan Mountains extend northwest to the Hami area before they are connected to the desert wasteland!
Tianshan Mountain also has branches, the largest branch is Boroconu Mountain!
The intersection of Boroconu Mountain and Tianshan Mountain is Urumqi on the northern foot of the Qing Dynasty, which was called Kulun!
This branch of the Tianshan Mountains extends northwest and directly forms an angle with the main vein of the Tianshan Mountains.
And this geographical angle is the Yili River Basin!
The two mountains form a wide-mouth triangle, and the huge and gentle opening is aimed at the West, at Lake Balkash, and at the ambitions of countless alien races!
As we all know, the boundary lines of ancient human borders were divided according to the geographical and natural environment, which played a huge role in the military.
Relying on rivers, forests, deserts, mountains... we can form a series of solid defense lines that are easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Whoever controls the strategic location can use one hundred and a small amount of troops to ensure their own homeland security!
The Tianshan Mountains and Boroconu Mountain are such barriers. If you fall to the hands of Chinese people, you can guard against Western aliens by being condescending.
If it falls into the hands of aliens, they can peek at the entire Xinjiang region from a condescending moment!
The Yili River Valley is just at the dividing point of the southern and northern borders. This is the axis on the northwest border. Whoever controls this place will gain the initiative in strategy.
In the valleys hit by such a rich river, raising millions of horses is not a problem at all, and even five or six million immigrants can afford it.
If you continue to operate slowly, this place will become the best logistics base to provide supplies to the army!
And what's even more serious is that the strategic location of this triangle is the smoothest opening that actually aims at the West, which is the direction of the enemy's attack.
This means that the enemy's attack is flat and moving directly along the river. The dangerous places are all on the back of the Yili area!
During the Qianlong period, the Qing government quelled the Hezhuo Rebellion. A Gui and other important officials from the Military Affairs Office wrote a letter to Qianlong to request the establishment of a general's mansion in the Yili area to guard the Western Regions.
In 1762, Qianlong ordered the construction of Huiyuan City in the Yili River Valley and established the position of General Yili, using this city as the core to control the entire Yili River Valley area.
And controlling this place means controlling the southern and northern borders in disguise!
However, as the Qing Dynasty's national strength gradually weakened, Western aliens began to move. First, Aguber's Hui tribe rebellion began to sweep the entire southern Xinjiang.
The Yili area cannot be unaffected. Mingxu, the general of Yili in the fifth year of Tongzhi, was surrounded by the general's mansion by the thugs of the Hui tribe less than three years after taking office.
At that time, the entire Yili area was already in chaos, and Agubo and local rebels began to burn, kill, loot and prepare to occupy the Yili River Valley.
General Mingxu was unable to turn the world to the end, and retreated to the inner house and died for his family!
General Mingxu's deputy, Yili Counselor Rong Quan, became the highest official of the Qing Dynasty in the Yili area. At that time, Mingxu appointed Rong Quan to borrow troops and grain from Tsarist Russia, but unexpectedly, the Tsarist Russians not only did not borrow but detained him.
It was not until the Yili area was full of riots that Rong Quan took the opportunity to escape. Since there was no soldier or soldier around him, he could only flee to Tacheng, the northern border in a hurry.
Rongquan, who was appointed as the new general of Yili in Tacheng, is beginning to organize training for Kazakhstan and Mongolian soldiers, raise military rations everywhere, and support them hard.
Two generals of Yili, one of the whole family died tragically, and the other retreated to a remote northern lonely city. A power vacuum suddenly appeared in the entire Yili area.
"My good relative! Guess what?" Hu Laosan said with a bitter face while smoking a dry tobacco.
"It's really strange that those Aguber rebels and rebel bandits actually retreated together! From the fifth year of Tongzhi to the present, it has been ten years of Tongzhi!"
"There is no enemy in the Yili area. We, the remaining veterans of Karen, have been maintaining order for five years!"
"Please guess why?"
Sir Gordon suddenly said with a calm face, "Why else can you? Of course it's a Tsarist Russian!"
Uncle Hu San was not willing to speak when he saw the big nose of the British, and Doro persuaded him, "Uncle San... This Sir Gordon is not an outsider, this is the admiral of the Long Live King! He has been given a yellow jacket!"
"I don't hide it from you anymore. My name is Doro, this one is Guan Lu... We are all mankind, and we are all guards in the Forbidden City!"
"What?" Uncle Hu San shook his hand at that time, and a pot of red charcoal ash burned on his hands. "Oh, oh, don't catch fire, you'll be about to step on it!"
When he saw the waist-tag of the Forbidden City, of course Uncle Hu San couldn't understand it, but he could choose to believe in these relatives who could come from the south.
"Wuwuwu..." Uncle San wiped his tears and cried, "It's good that the emperor didn't forget this place, it's good that we old people!"
"I kowtowed to the adults!" After saying that, Uncle Hu San was going to kowtow to Doro, Guan Lu and Admiral Gordon.
How could these people be willing to let the veteran kneel down? At this moment, they had long lost the bad habits in Sijiu City back then. A group of guards supported Uncle Hu San with tears in their eyes.
"Don't kowtow to us... We should kowtow to you... If you want to kneel down, just kowtow to Beijing... Let's kowtow one for Master Long Sui!"
"Long live the master!" Uncle Hu San kowtowed to the ground with one head facing Beijing. "Long live the master! Why didn't you send someone early... Woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo
"We are not afraid of death, we are afraid that we will not hold on to it in the end... we are afraid that death will not be buried in our own soil!"
"Long live the Lord... don't lose this piece of soil... Woo woo woo woo!"
"It can be considered as seeing relatives from Central Plains...it can be considered as seeing..."
Chapter completed!