"What? The Ming Kingdom insists on destroying our Rakshasa Kingdom and only requires me to surrender. Moreover, after surrendering, I will be interrogated and convicted. Taking the initiative to surrender can only be regarded as meritorious service, not a complete absolution?"
Alexey was very disappointed after getting Ming's reply from Lovsky.
He actually hoped that Ming Guo was just trying to extort some more benefits.
But he didn't expect that Mingguo really wanted his country! And he was only asked to surrender, and even if he surrendered, he would have to be tried and convicted.
"Excessive!"
Alexey punched the table directly and said with a trembling voice: "I would rather fight until the last person in our Rakshasa Kingdom is left than surrender!"
"Your Majesty is right, now we can only fight to the bitter end!"
"Let the Ming Kingdom see our Rakshasa people's determination to defend our homeland to the death!"
"He will definitely regret it. Maybe he allowed them to take advantage before the weather gets colder, but after it gets colder, they will suffer a loss!"
Wei Xing and other big nobles also responded.
They were also disappointed with Ming Ting's toughness.
What they didn't expect in particular was that even if they surrendered, they would be judged. The emperor of the Ming Dynasty actually wanted to make decisions for the untouchables in his country and judge nobles like himself!
However, at this time, Alexei still showed the rationality of a king. In addition to his strong stance, he told Lovsky: "You'd better send someone to Poland and Sweden, as well as the Cossacks, to tell them Poland and Sweden, as long as they are willing to send troops to fight with our Rakshasa country against our Ming country, our Rakshasa country is willing to cede territory, return the territory seized from them, and surrender to them. As for the Cossacks, tell them that as long as they help When our country of Rakshasa survives this difficult time, we will hire them with higher salaries! We will also open the titles of our country of Rakshasa to them!"
"yes!"
By doing this, Alexey was naturally seeking to unite more allies on his side to deal with the Ming Empire, which was about to conquer his Rakshasa Kingdom.
Of course, this is also a sign of Alexei's lack of inner confidence.
However, Alexey and his nobles were indeed very serious about preparing for a crusade against the Ming Dynasty because of the toughness shown by the Ming Dynasty.
Alexey made a passionate speech at the meeting of the gentry, calling on all Rakshasa people to unite.
At the same time, the great nobles of the Rakshasa Kingdom were also actively mobilizing people from the upper and lower classes of Rakshasa to resist the Ming Dynasty.
However, at this time, many big nobles, middle-level nobles, and almost all officials who directly faced ordinary Rakshasa people took the opportunity to expropriate and plunder in the name of fighting against the Ming Dynasty.
In addition, the Rakshasa Kingdom had increased heavy taxes before, which made the people of the Rakshasa Kingdom even more miserable.
For a time, the famine in many parts of the Rakshasa Kingdom became more serious.
A large number of civilians went bankrupt and even starved to death.
Starvation is everywhere.
When the first batch of expeditionary troops sent by the Ming Dynasty, totaling more than 300,000 soldiers and horses, entered the territory of the Rakshasa Kingdom, Zhu Cizhuo, as the forward admiral, and guerrilla Wuya and others from his direct guard battalion saw many Rakshasa People lined both sides of the road, and they were dying of hunger. The nearby vegetation had been eaten, and everything was bare.
Therefore, Zhu Cizhuo ordered: "First use part of the general's rations to make porridge to help them. In the future, we will have to rely on these people to work in our factories and buy our products. We have to save them! In addition, let them take a bath and let them take a bath." The medical officer accompanying the army will screen their health status. If someone is infected, they need to be diagnosed and determined clearly whether it is a plague! Countermeasures should be taken in time, and then the Jin Yiwei interpreter accompanying the army will be sent to ask them how far it is from Kazan City and whether there are any People know how many soldiers and horses are stationed in Kazan City. After asking, report it to me so that I can compare it with the Jin Yiwei’s information."
"yes!"
Wu Ya replied.
Next, the Ming army sent corresponding personnel to rescue these dying Rakshasa civilians.
Most of these Rakshasa civilians are bankrupt serfs, that is, refugees. They are basically illiterate. Naturally, they do not have much national consciousness. They are the same as ordinary people before the Ming Dynasty. It makes no difference to them who is the master of the world. .
Therefore, when the Ming army took the initiative to provide them with food relief and even provided medical treatment for them, they were naturally grateful and considered the Ming army to be the real king.
For a time, more and more Rakshasa refugees gathered at the Ming Army's relief office.
The instructors of the Ming army took the opportunity to preach the policies of the Ming Dynasty, the kindness of the Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao, and that they came to save them.
These Rakshasa refugees believed it.
There is no reason why they don’t believe it, because if they believe, they will have food to eat, but if they don’t believe it, they will have nothing to eat.
For a time, the Ming army was really regarded as their savior.
These Rakshasa people were very cooperative and even actively answered everything the Ming army wanted to know, and even took the initiative to tell them all the information about Kazan, the first strong city that the Ming army needed to attack next.
Although the Rakshasa army demolished the bridges and damaged the roads along the way before the Ming army arrived.
However, under the organization of the Ming army's trainers, these Rakshasa people actively rebuilt bridges for the Ming army, repaired roads, and even helped the Ming army carry baggage.
There are even active Rakshasa people who are willing to take the initiative to serve as Ming Dynasty's spies and sneak into Kazan City to investigate the truth.
When they arrived at Kazan City, the Ming army knew in advance which section of Kazan City's wall had just been repaired, and after shelling this area, they directly destroyed Kazan City.
Some ordinary Rakshasa people who were organized actively helped the Ming army charging into the city to build ladders.
As a result, Kazan City was successfully captured by the Ming army.
Andfu, the Rakshasa guard of Kazan City, had hurriedly escaped from Kazan City with his troops before the city was broken. After seeing the Rakshasa people outside the city actively helping the Ming army invade the city, he said angrily : "This group of shameless untouchables who have no regard for the country! They actually lured the wolf into the house!"
The Rakshasa Tsar Alexei soon learned the news of the fall of Kazan City, and was shocked: "Kazan has been lost?! So soon?!"
Lofsky replied: "Yes! It was General Anderford who personally asked someone to bring the news back on a fast horse."
Alexey was so angry that he shouted and asked: "What does General Anderford do for food! Doesn't he have more than 30,000 elites?!"
"According to Andefu's report, the Ming army's attack on Kazan was very vicious. They even distributed food to those who were starving! And these Rakshasa people actually took the initiative to help these invaders and even acted as their spies! As a result, Kazan was easily conquered. .”
Lofsky replied.
After hearing this, Wei Xing spoke first: "What a cruel move! You actually used food to bribe our refugees! It's really unimaginable!"
Then, Weisin looked at Alexei.
Lovsky also looked at Tsar Alexei.
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