.Volume 4 The Empire Ascension Chapter 99 Ordnance Help

Speaking of which, Russia is the only country bordering the Ming Dynasty on the mainland, but its understanding of the Ming Dynasty is actually less pitiful than that of many European countries. Many European countries have purchased telegraph technology from the Ming Dynasty, but no one in Russia knows what telegraph is. It will take at least several months to return to Moscow from Bolsk City.

After sending out the helping personnel, Godunov did not forget to summon troops. In August, after more than a month of hard work, Godunov expanded his army to 5,000. However, except for more than a thousand regular troops, the other more than 3,000 soldiers were loosely disciplined militias. Although they also held muskets in their hands, they had no idea how much combat power they had. Godunov was not sure about it. He did not dare to send reinforcements to the strongholds who were asking for help, so he had to try his best to strengthen the defense of Tobolsk Castle.

Du Xiaoshan was not in a hurry to attack Tobolsk City. For the Ming army, the biggest worry was not the resistance of the Russians, but the vast area of ​​Siberia and the upcoming cold weather. If the city of Tobolsk City was conquered, the Russian troops in other strongholds would lose their confidence and flee in all directions. This was the most troublesome thing.

If the city of Tobosque was kept, even if the Russians in other cities wanted to escape, they would first think of escaping to Tobosque. As expected, when the Ming army swept through various strongholds, most of the escaped Russians gathered in Tobosque. Soon, Tobosque City rose from 20,000 to 30,000, and forty thousand...

After these Russians escaped from their strongholds, most of them were empty-handed and had no help in the defense of Tobolsk City, but they would consume the precious food in the city. This made Godunov complain secretly, but he could not refuse these people to enter the city. He had to order to collect food in the city as much as possible and distribute it uniformly. Before the Ming army arrived, there was a grain shortage in Tobolsk City.

On the periphery of Simbiersk, nearly 20,000 rebels composed of serfs, homeless men, Cossacks and others surrounded the city. The city walls were full of traces of ammunition shooting, and gaps were already exposed in many places. Just looking at the already shaky city, Rasin was filled with worries.

It has been more than a month since the attack on the city of Simbiersk. The rebels once attacked the outer city, but were driven out by the Tsar's army several times. Although the rebels still have an advantage, there is no enough gunpowder. Racine knew that although his subordinates were strong, they were mostly mobs. Once the Tsar's reinforcements arrived at the city, the future of this uprising was uncertain.

"We must find a way to take down the city of Simbirsk as soon as possible, otherwise it will be in danger." Racine said to himself.

It is not easy to take down the city of Simbiersk. Simbiersk not only has strong city defense, but also has heavy troops to guard. The city guards led by Miloslavsky had 4,500 people, including Moscow shooting soldiers, local shooting soldiers, and Moscow elite soldiers, more than half of them were elite professional soldiers. If the rebel army had not won one after another and the morale was high, these soldiers would have been defeated by an impact.

"Gunpowder, shells, I need more gunpowder, shells." Racine almost shouted in her heart. There was not enough ammunition, and even if she rushed into the inner city again, she would be driven out by the Tsar's lackeys.

"His Excellency Racine, someone asks for a visit." An officer came to Racine's tent and reported.

"Who is asking for a meeting?" Racine asked strangely.

"It's a Tatar." The visitor replied.

"Cerkask, don't you know that now is the critical moment for siege? How many major things my brother has to consider? Why does a Tatar ask for a visit to me? " Racine's younger brother Flor said dissatisfiedly.

Just as the yellow people were difficult to distinguish the appearance of the white people, the white people were also difficult to distinguish the appearance of the yellow people. For the yellow people in the country, the Russians uniformly called the Tatars, perhaps in order to retaliate against the Mongols who had ruled themselves. After Russia's independence, it brutally massacred and exploited the Tatars in the country. The Don River Basin of the Racine Uprising was originally the main area where the Tatars lived. After the Russians massacred the Tatars, there were still many Tatars here, and many Tatars participated in the uprising led by Racine, but their status still did not improve much. The Ross never regarded the Tatars as the same as their own.

"My Excellency Ferro, the Tatar said there was a batch of firearms to be given to us," replied Cherkask.

"What?" Rasing was moved. It was the moment when the rebels were short of ammunition. It was really great to have a batch of firearms delivered. He immediately said, "Hurry up, invite him in."

"Yes, Your Excellency."

Shortly after Cherkask went down, a yellow man walked in behind Cherkask. Racine looked at the person who came in carefully. Although this person was dressed like a Tatar, Racine still judged at a glance that this person was definitely not comparable to that of ordinary Tatars in China.

After hundreds of years of suppression of the Tatars, the Tatar nobles had already been wiped out. The Tatars who survived by chance could only engage in the lowest jobs. No one would have such a healthy face and hands in front of them.

"Who are you? What's the matter with me?"

The person who came forward stood up and said, "I am still a hundred households of the Ming Dynasty's Jinyiwei. I came to see you this time because I want to make a deal with you."

The person who came spoke Mongolian, Racine and Ferro were confused, but Cherkask understood and quickly translated it to the two of them.

"Ming?" Ferro's face was confused, but Racine had a thoughtful expression on his face. For the Ming Dynasty, he had heard the officers who were also Cossacks talk about it. It is said that the Tsar sent the Cossacks to the east to explore the east to suffer the losses of the Ming army, and Racine was no longer aware of the other details.

I thought the Ming Dynasty was a very distant thing for him, but I didn't expect that a Ming Dynasty Jinyiwei officer came to discuss a deal with him. Although Racine was a little confused, he asked: "What deal?"

"I wonder if Mr. Racine is interested in the transaction of the two thousand best rifles and ten cannons." Wu Yikui smiled.

"You have two thousand rifles and ten cannons?"

“Where, how much does it cost?”

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After listening to Cherkask's translation, Racine and Ferro asked questions quickly like a gun. Feeling the urgency of the two in front of him, Wu Yikui said: "Don't worry, the price is very reasonable. The goods are on the border not far from the Volga River. If you need them, you can see this batch of goods in a few days. Unfortunately, because I am afraid of being misunderstood, I did not bring the samples this time."

Although Racine still had some doubts in her heart, the temptation of two thousand muskets and ten cannons was too great. Racine immediately asked Cherkask to lead a thousand people to receive them, and secretly instructed that only the firearms were true, and even the price was high, they would take them down.

A few days later, Cherkask saw these muskets and cannons. What made Cherkask happy was that the quality of these firearms was far above the firearms they seized. One was willing to buy and the other was willing to sell. The two sides quickly reached a deal, and in the end the two sides sold for 20,000 taels of gold.

For Racine, because she captured many cities and robbed all the nobles and rich peasants, there was no shortage of gold, and there were too few firearms. The price of 20,000 taels of gold was indeed fair. For Wu Yikui, this batch of guns was originally to be handed over to Racine, even if Racine didn’t offer one tael of gold, let alone the price of Racine was much higher than that of domestic prices.

With these firearms, the rebels launched a new attack on the city of Simbiersk. The rebels attacked like rain, which made the Tsarist army in the city of Simbiersk unable to raise their heads. Soon the rebels attacked the inner city again.

Duke Miloslavsky, who was guarding the city, was puzzled by the sudden concentrated firepower of the rebels, and had to concentrate his troops to guard the inner city. Just when they thought at least the inner city could still hold on, the rebels set up ten cannons he purchased. The maximum two of these ten cannons could fire fifteen pounds of shells. The huge shells roared on the inner city gate, and the sound was heard clearly throughout the city, and the defenders looked like earth.

One day later, the city of Simbirsk was captured by the rebels, and almost all the defenders in the city were executed by the rebels.

The Tsar had sent two troops to rescue the city of Simbirsk, namely the six elite soldiers led by Duke Dorgorukov and the noble armed forces of each county led by Duke Baryatinsky. The two were harassed by the uprising peasant army along the way, but they gradually approached the city of Simbirsk.

In history, because the city of Simbirsk could not be captured for a long time, the rebel army was defeated by the reinforcements arrived by the Tsar, and even Rasin was injured. The situation of the uprising suddenly took a sharp turn and was finally wiped out a year later. Now with the secret help of the Ming army, Rasin captured Simbirsk in advance. Dukes of Dorgorukov and Duke Baryatinski heard the news that the city was captured, and no one dared to move forward. History turned a corner here, and no one knew where they would go in the future.

After tasting the sweetness of the Ming army's ordnance, Racine traded several times with the Ming army. The scale of these transactions was much larger than the first time. The Ming army sold Racine more than 23,000 rifles and forty-two artillery pieces to Racine, and Racine's power expanded rapidly.

For the Ming Dynasty, no matter whether Racine succeeds or not, the stronger the strength, the better. Even if Racine successfully drove the Tsar off the throne, with Racine's actions against the nobles, Russia will definitely go through a long period of turmoil. By the end of the Russian turmoil, the Ming Dynasty had already consolidated the border east of the Ural Mountains. From then on, Russia would never want to get involved in the land in Asia, not to mention the price given by Racine is really attractive.
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