When Ye Meliyang. After Pugachev and several of his accomplices were publicly executed in Moscow in early 1775, from Siberia to Moscow, the originally seemingly stable ruling order of the Tsarist Empire did not recover for a long time.
The "Pugachev Uprising" that occurred from 1773 to 1775 was ostensibly caused by the Ural Cossacks disobeying orders to intercept the Turghuts returning eastward in 1771, which triggered a series of riots. In essence, it was It was a struggle between the Ural Cossack civilian faction and the aristocratic faction.
In general, the Cossacks just did not want Tsarist Russia to interfere in their tribal affairs and destroy the previous tribal political system with relatively equal power. The most important thing is that I neither want to serve in the military nor pay taxes!
In fact, the root cause of Pugachev's riots was not this man's appeal. It was the Ural Cossacks who planned and led the entire riot. Even the Cossack group whose name was "Peter III" was also from the Urals. from.
For the hundreds of Cossack captives present today, they themselves or their fathers were participants in that rebellion, otherwise they would not have been exiled to the east of the Ural Mountains and then recruited to the battlefield by Rumyantsev . So when Mikhail revealed Ivan's true identity without shame, the prisoners immediately recalled the large-scale riot that swept from the North Caucasus to the Murom Forest more than ten years ago.
But many illiterate Cossacks did not know Pugachev's true identity, because the rebels who knew this were executed.
"Are you Pugachev's son? But I heard that his son is dead."
"I heard that man is the Tsar, so you are the Tsar's son?"
Has been renamed Alexander. Ivanovich's Krutogrove said with a smile: "Haha, am I not standing here properly? Those are all rumors spread by shameless officials."
"Hey man, can you tell us how you escaped?"
Krutogrove then sat down and told everyone an elaborate story. This is a version that has been repeatedly tested by Wu Siyu, Zhao Xin and other Cossacks who took refuge. After Krutogrove memorized it for a long time and memorized it by heart, he repeatedly told it to those who surrendered in Yaksa. He himself couldn't tell whether it was true or false.
It is said that after the Pugachev Rebellion began in 1773, Pugachev, who called himself "Peter III", claimed that Catherine II was his prodigal wife; at the same time, he said that he was going to become a monk and let his son Paul inherit the throne. throne.
This move made the empress furious. While she stepped up her efforts to refute the rumors, she also sent people searching for Pugachev's wife, Sophia. After catching his wife and children, Catherine II ordered Sophia to be released every time she went to the market, and asked her to tell everyone that the rebel leader was actually her man.
In 1774, after Pugachev captured Kazan, he found his wife and children in the city prison. But at this time, because he has married a new "queen". Pugachev said that Sophia and the child were the family members of a friend of his. Now that they had met, it was his responsibility to take care of them. But until Pugachev was captured, Sofia and the child stayed with the rebels.
After Pugachev was arrested, Catherine II asked the "Queen" Ustinia to appear in the market, saying that he was not "Peter III" at all, but an ordinary Cossack.
However, it should not be the case. After Catherine II executed Pugachev, she strictly ordered the people and officials not to mention this peace incident again, and renamed the Yayk River "Ural River". The Yaik Cossacks also became the Ural Cossacks. And Pugachev's two wives and children were secretly imprisoned and never appeared in front of the world again. It was not until several decades later during the reign of Alexander I that the matter was gradually discussed again.
The Queen's original intention was to completely put an end to that terrible memory, but Zhao Xin keenly caught the loophole after reading a large amount of historical data preserved in another time and space. The reason why he chose Krutogrove among tens of thousands of prisoners was because the leader looked most like Peter III.
He insisted to Krutogrove that there was no doubt that Pugachev was Peter III. As for you, you are the child of Peter III and his lover, so Archduke Paul should be your half-brother.
As we all know, the relationship between Peter III and Catherine II was not good. They did not share the same bed on the wedding day, and each had a lover. Of course, the Queen had many lovers, which made Peter III ashamed. One of the most famous lovers of Peter III was Elizaveta. Romanovna was the second daughter of Count Vorontsov, the then commander-in-chief of the Russian army.
Zhao Xin fabricated another lover for Peter III, Count Vorontsov's youngest daughter Maria. Romanovna.
How dare you make such nonsense! Krutogrove was frightened to death after hearing this story for the first time. However, because he did not know much about Pugachev's life experience, he began to feel honored after gradually accepting his new identity.
That’s awesome! The son of the Tsar and the Countess!
However, Zhao Xin did not know at this time that the identity he forged for Krutogrove would mess up the Swedish royal family more than ten years later. When King Gustav IV was placed under house arrest, many people in the parliament proposed that Krutogrove's son return to inherit the throne, which made Crown Prince Karl, who had been waiting eagerly to become king, tired of it.
You must know that Peter III's full name is Karl. Peter. Ulrich is Anna, the eldest daughter of Peter I. Born to Princess Petrovna and Duke Holstein-Gotorp of Sweden. According to the paternal genealogy, Peter III is the grandnephew of King Carl XII of Sweden, and his descendants are fully qualified to inherit the Swedish throne.
"So you are a descendant of the Tsar? A direct descendant of him?"
"How can you be considered a Cossack? I don't think it's appropriate for you to do this."
"Do you want us to follow you? Uh... I think you should discuss this matter with the officers."
Krutogrove shook his head and said: "Brothers, since my father sought justice for the Cossacks during his lifetime, then I am a Cossack! Besides, can those officers and nobles represent the Cossacks? They have long betrayed this group, and the poor The Cossacks should establish their own organization and seek their own justice."
"That's right! It's fair!"
In the next few days, the same dinner party was held every day. Wu Siyu told Krutogrove that brainwashing must be continuous and must not give others time to think.
Starting from the third day, Krutogrove told the prisoners the "History of the Don Cossacks" that was deliberately adapted by "someone" after the dinner party. It tells the glorious deeds of Peter III (Pugachev), the free life of the Cossacks, and the deeds of Stepan, Razin and Kondrati. At the same time, it uses popular language to tell the story of the miserable and impoverished life of the Cossacks, satirizes the system and governance methods of Tsarist Russia, and mocks the Tsarist government and the Cossack nobles who serve as the imperial bodyguards.
During this period, Mikhail and his other men silently observed the expressions of the prisoners and wrote them down one by one in a small book. Gradually, when the last batch of captured Russian battalion commanders, regimental commanders and generals arrived at the prison camp, the first news that slipped into their ears was that "the prince has come to rescue the Cossacks."
On September 15, 1790, Zhao Xin led his army to conquer Nizhniydinsk, an important town in Eastern Siberia. He kept following Rumyantsev, keeping his distance, but pursuing him relentlessly.
At this time, the Third Regiment and the Ainu Battalion led by Huji on the northern front had already passed the confluence of the Angara River and the Taseyeva River, and could enter the Yenisei River in another day's walk. Fortunately, all the river fleets of the Northern Navy were equipped with diesel motors, which allowed them to run very fast; if they had only relied on manpower and sails to sail against the current, they would probably have only made it halfway through the journey.
Now the next attack target of the Northern Navy on the southern route is Krasnoyarsk, which is located at the junction of the Central Siberian Plateau and the Sayan Mountains. The Mongols in Vetra called it the "City on the Red Coast", so the prison first built by Tsarist Russia was also called the "Novokaczynski Red Prison". The main purpose of this prison was to defend the main settlements in Siberia from the south, and to hold captive Yenisey Kyrgyz people - actually a part of the Vetla Mongols.
When Bering launched his expedition, he also used this place as a starting point to collect supplies and equipment.
If such a meaningful place name is not taken down, we will be sorry for the red flag of the Northern Navy. Besides, the soil is red, indicating that the local area is rich in iron ore.
In addition, from Krasnoyarsk, follow the Yenisey River to the south for more than 300 kilometers, turn into the Amukha River at Abakan, and walk a few hundred miles through the Sayan Mountains to reach Sanyinnoyan in Outer Mongolia. The border town of Abaza.
It is said that although the "Brenschi Boundary Treaty" signed by the Qing Dynasty and Russia in 1727 delineated the Sino-Russian border east of Sabinda Bahá, the Tsarist Russian Empire moved to the Kemuzik River Basin and Tangnu Uliang to the east. Open expansion in the maritime area has been curbed, but the Sino-Russian border west of "Sabineda Bahan" has never been delineated.
Don't look at that area that has been marked by the Manchus as their own territory. In fact, as early as 1709, Tsarist Russia had already located at the intersection of the Altan River and the Hatun River to the west of the Tangnu Uliang Sea - that is, with Fort Bisk was built within the territory of the Qing Dynasty as a base for expansion into the Altanur Ulianghai and Tangnu Ulianghai. After the mid-eighteenth century, Tsarist Russia continued to secretly advance to the upper reaches of the Khatun and Altan rivers, squeezing the local indigenous residents into the deep zone between the two rivers.
In another time and space in history, the "Sino-Russian Treaty on the Demarcation of the Northwest Boundary" and three other demarcation protocols were signed based on this fact of aggression. Tsarist Russia thus ceded 440,000 square kilometers of northwest China. territory.
Since the end of the Battle of Usoliya, Zhao Xin has gained another personal hobby. He wrote all the unequal treaties signed by the Manchus and Tsarist Russia in another time and space on a wood bookmark that he often used, thus reminding himself at all times that he must never be merciful to Tsarist Russia.
On September 20, after five days of long journey, the leading troops on the southern front broke out of the pass at the northern foot of Sayan Mountains and appeared 2 kilometers east of the "City on the Red Coast". The red military flag flying high on the hill was immediately spotted by the watchtower set up in the east of the city. As the bells in the church rang rapidly, the entire city of Krasnoyarsk immediately entered into general mobilization.
Since Rumyantsev arrived two days earlier than the Northern Navy, the local soldiers and civilians had already opened the armory, taken out the ordnance and ammunition, and built "strong barricades" in the city, preparing to resist to the death; even the Tsarist Russian Empire's The first county library was also turned into a military fortress.
Unlike small towns like Nizhniyutinsk, Krasnoyarsk, the center of Yenisey Province, is quite large. The main local residents have long been soldiers and their families. However, because Rumyantsev took away part of the army during his expedition to Irkutsk, there were only more than 500 troops stationed in the city. Even with Rumyantsev's remaining There are only more than 5,000 remaining troops.
In fact, Rumyantsev fell ill on the day he led his army to arrive here. Days of running around and cold rain made the old marshal develop a high fever. After diagnosis, the monks at the church in the city decided to use bloodletting for treatment. As a result, the poor old man became more and more unconscious after a full glass of blood was drained, which made the local mayor and council members anxious.
At this time, the leading troops of the Northern Navy did not launch an attack. Instead, they built fortifications on a hill two kilometers away from the city and waited for the arrival of the large troops.
The problem is that the local residents do not believe in evil and do not believe the advice of the Russian soldiers who escaped. After the mayor and city council members learned that there were only more than 200 enemies outside the city, they immediately exercised their power and ordered the local garrison major to lead the army to launch an attack, trying to teach the Chinese who came from afar a painful lesson.
However, only twenty minutes after the war started, the major was killed on the spot. Immediately afterwards, when the North Korean navy's mortars blew several cannons and howitzers into scrap metal, the attacking troops who suffered heavy casualties panicked. He fled back to the city, saying that he would never dare to go out to provoke again.
Two days later, Zhao Xin arrived with his army. After careful reconnaissance by drone, it was discovered that fortifications were built everywhere in the city. He knew that if he directly ordered the infantry to attack, he would probably fall into the quagmire of street fighting. So Zhao Xin asked his men to build more than a dozen simple artillery positions in one day, and then launched a continuous bombardment of Krasnoyarsk.
This time the Russians in the city were in dire straits. A fire seventeen years ago turned the entire city into ashes, so the buildings in the city are all newly built, and many of them are made of stone. The explosion of the artillery shells flew away countless rubbles and turned them into countless murderous weapons.
When the Russian officers and soldiers who fled here with Rumyantsev saw this situation, they knew they could not cope with it. Some people simply threw away their weapons and put on civilian clothes; while others continued their escape on the pretext of going to Tobolsk to move reinforcements.
As for Rumyantsev, he was tortured by those monks and doctors until he could barely breathe.
