Rebirth of the Qing Empire

In the mid-19th century, Agub, an officer from the Kokand Kingdom in Central Asia, led his troops to invade Xinjiang with the support of the United Kingdom and established the Muslim King's regime. He held high the flag of the Ottoman Turkish Empire and openly occupied the territory of the Qing Empire. In 1877, the 66-year-old Qing army

The famous general Zuo Zongtang led his army to successfully regain Xinjiang, destroying the colonial regime of Aguba Zedshar that had occupied Xinjiang for 13 years, thwarting the British expansion conspiracy in Xinjiang, and making Russia want to take advantage of the advantageous terrain neighboring Xinjiang.

However, the dream of swallowing Xinjiang came to nothing, which safeguarded the territorial integrity of the Qing Empire, demonstrated the determination and strength of the Chinese nation to resist foreign aggression, and also promoted the economic and cultural development of Xinjiang.

After the demise of Russia, the newly established Soviet Russia was too tired to deal with the domestic war and had no time to worry about other things. The military threat in the entire northwest frontier of the Qing Empire was eliminated. As the Beining government's control over this area rapidly increased, Xinjiang welcomed the

A wonderful period of development has come.

On the basis of inheriting the mantle of General Zuo Zongtang, Kang Fan was even more ambitious. During the First World War, he ordered the Beining Army to occupy the inlet of the Ili River - a water surface area of ​​more than 18,000 square meters.

Kilometers of Lake Balkhash, and the Ili River Basin and three major lakes including Lake Balkhash, Zhaisangbo, and Issyk-Kul, which had been occupied by Russia since 1864, as well as the surrounding land of nearly 500,000 square kilometers, were returned to Xinjiang

The territory restored the original national boundaries of the Qing Empire. Later, the railway from Taiyuan to Dihua, the capital of Xinjiang, was opened, further strengthening the connection between the northwest region and the mainland. Later, the Taiyuan-Dihua main railway line was extended to the shore of Lake Balkhash

It connects the beautiful and fertile Ili Valley with the mainland, making the Tai-Di Railway the longest railway in operation in the contemporary Qing Empire. It is also a railway of great strategic significance. Its arduous and massive project is rare in the world.

Due to the construction of this railway, the reputation of the Bac Ninh Internal Guard Engineering Corps became world-famous.

In the spring of 1916, Beining's army finally crossed the Shilka River and occupied the Russian city of Nerchinsk. This city was the former Chinese city of Nerchinsk, where the Qing Emperor Kangxi signed an armistice agreement with the Russian invading forces.

, also known as the "Treaty of Nerchinsk". After occupying the city of Nerchinsk, the Beining Army quickly built the city into a fully functional military base, and then used this place as its base camp to dispatch a number of advance troops, mainly armored and mechanized troops.

Under the cover of a large number of Army Air Force fighter planes, they crossed the Xing'an Mountains, advanced westward along the Trans-Siberian Railway, and surrounded Chita, an important Russian city 300 kilometers west of Nerchinsk City, forcing the Russian defenders of Chita to surrender without a fight.

It continued until it reached Lake Baikal.

At this time, the Russian army was engaged in a desperate struggle with the German-Austrian Allied Forces on the European battlefield. The war situation was extremely dangerous. Most of the Russian troops in the Far East were transferred to fight on the Western Front. Their strength was extremely weak and they were unable to organize a decent defense. The domestic revolutionary movement was also surging.

, was in chaos, and had no ability to compete with the better-equipped and more powerful Beining Army in the Asian territory they called "Siberia" thousands of miles away from its European center. It could only let the Beining Army

Push forward.

After once again forcing the Russian defenders of the city of Yakutsk, an important town in the Russian Far East on the Lena River, to surrender, the Beining Army was divided into three routes. The Northern Route Army rushed north along both banks of the Lena River to Lapp in the Arctic Ocean.

The Eastern Route Army advanced to the west coast of the Bering Strait, and with the cooperation of the navy, surrounded the largest city on the Kamchatka Peninsula - the capital Petropavlovsk - by land and sea.

Hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers and civilians in this Russian Far East port city founded in 1740 were plunged into panic and crisis; the Western Route Army bypassed Lake Baikal, captured Irkutsk, an important hub city on the Trans-Siberian Railway, and

Continue heading west along the Trans-Siberian Railway.

Among the three armies, the Western Route Army has the most arduous combat tasks. Because most of the main Russian forces in Siberia are concentrated along the Trans-Siberian Railway, relying on well-equipped cities and defense systems can cause a lot of trouble for the Western Route Army.

, the West Route Army is all heavy armored troops with strong assault power, and its main battle equipment is the improved "Tiger-B" and "Leopard-" of the "Tiger" and "Leopard" tracked armored fighting vehicles with better performance.

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The North Route Army and the East Route Army are mainly light mechanized units equipped with "Iron Horse" and "Iron Horse" improved wheeled armored personnel carriers, coupled with a small number of heavy armored units. In the North Route and East Route Army

A large number of logistics troops followed behind the East Route Army, while providing uninterrupted logistics supplies to the two armies, while selecting sites along the route to build an airport for the "Dapeng" transport aircraft to take off and land, and then established a temporary logistics supply base centered on the airport.

A three-dimensional logistics support network consisting of land and air transportation lines was formed; the Western Route Army made full use of the captured and ready-made Trans-Siberian Railway to establish logistics supply lines.

These three armies were advancing at an average speed of more than 300 kilometers per day, and they were unstoppable! Those Russian officers and soldiers who were "fortunate" to meet them saw only steel monsters spitting clouds and rumbling towards them. Not even a single figure could be seen.

Arrive! And these steel monsters swarming over the mountains and plains ignored the soft resistance of the Russian army. They just rushed up calmly and crushed barracks, bunkers, trenches, artillery, machine guns, human bodies, etc., and then

Keep moving forward without looking back. It is not a war, but a pure large-scale mechanized long-distance marching exercise!

Russia was unable to stop the advancing troops of Bac Ninh. In order to exchange for peace in the east, and to avoid fighting an enemy that was much more powerful than its own mortal enemy in Europe, Germany, it spared no effort to defend its European territory on the western front and took the initiative to submit a submission to the Bac Ninh government.

A new national boundary division plan was drawn up: the two sides demarcated the line along the Lena River, with the west belonging to Russia and the east belonging to the Qing Dynasty.

But Kang Fan did not agree. This national boundary demarcation plan had been proposed to Russia by the then Qing government as early as 1689 during the negotiations on the Treaty of Nerchinsk, but it did not receive Russia's consent. Now, more than 200 years have passed.

Finally, how could Kan Fan agree? His goal is not only the area east of the Lena River, he also wants to seize the vast land west of the Lena River up to the Yenisei River. This land has a total area of ​​more than 1.5 million square kilometers.

Deep in the hinterland of Siberia, it is located in the north, has a cold climate all year round, and is sparsely populated. More than 90% of it is primitive uninhabited land, so it is not difficult to capture it.

The Russians retreated again and again, and finally retreated to the west of the Yenisei River. Kang Fan immediately ordered the Beining Army to stop the attack, build a defense line along the Yenisei River Valley-Sayan Ridge line, and switch to defense on the spot.

At this time, the Western Route Army had already captured Krasnoyarsk, the administrative center of the Yenisey River Basin in Russia, crossed the upper reaches of the Yenisey River, and crossed the Sayan Mountains. Its left wing was already in contact with the Beining garrison of the Xinjiang Military Region.

After joining forces, they directly received strong support from the mainland of the Qing Empire. Their strength was greatly enhanced, and they were about to continue marching westward.

The logistics troops of the Northern Route Army stretch from the north of Nerchinsk City to the middle of the Yenisey River and downstream to the coast of the Arctic Ocean. The logistics troops of the Eastern Route Army stretch from the east of Yakutsk City to the west coast of the Bering Strait.

A base network consisting of multiple temporary logistics supply bases ranging from 500 to 1,000 kilometers apart was built. A large number of "Eagle-B" and "Dapeng" transport aircraft and "Iron Horse" series wheeled transport vehicles subsequently stationed at these bases

, a stable transportation line was quickly built, and various materials, equipment and engineering troops were continuously transported, and the arduous work of further building these temporary logistics supply bases into permanent bases was launched. On the one hand, it consolidated the results of victory, and on the other hand, it

On the one hand, it also creates favorable conditions for the peaceful development of this area in the future.

In October 1916, the Russian side hurriedly redetermined the national boundary between Russia and the Qing Empire with the Beinin government negotiators: the two sides were basically divided by the Yenisei River Valley-Sayan Mountains line, with Russia in the west and China in the east. Subsequently,

In order to achieve the goal of actually controlling this vast land as soon as possible, the Bac Ninh military took the initiative to assist Russia in moving all its voluntarily evacuated expatriates into areas controlled by Russia, and provided humanitarian assistance in transportation, food, clothing, medical care and other aspects throughout the process.

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In this way, the Beining army pushed to the top of the Qing Empire - all the Russian troops in the northern border areas rushed to the west, and re-established a Sino-Russian border line from Xinjiang in the south to the Arctic Ocean coast in the north, realizing Kang Fan's sweep of the great

The Qing Empire's military threat from the north and its strategic intention to reach the sea directly to the north. The Beining government immediately renamed the vast eastern part of Siberia that it had recaptured to the Anyuan Prefecture, which means "stability in the distance", making the Anyuan Prefecture surpass the Beining Prefecture in one fell swoop.

It became the largest and northernmost jurisdiction of the Qing Empire.

The area under the jurisdiction of Anyuan has been the survival and reproduction place of various nomadic peoples in northern China since ancient times. It was first included in the territory of China during the Tang Dynasty. In the late 16th century, Russian forces invaded this area. Only then did China begin to gradually lose control over this area.

After the Anyuan prefecture was established, it showed that the Beining government finally regained all the territory of the Qing Empire that Russia had occupied since the second half of the 17th century, and owned a large area of ​​​​the northern Pacific and Arctic Ocean coasts, completely strangling the Tsarist Russian government for hundreds of years.

Over the years, the Qing Empire has been seeking an expansion eastward, expanding the territory of the Qing Empire southward to the equator and northward to the Arctic Circle, penetrating half of the earth! It has greatly expanded the living space of the Chinese nation. It is really

Kang Fan felt a strong sense of accomplishment!

The scientific research activities in the Anyuan area organized by the Bac Ninh government started from the day the area was established and have continued. This is not only because of the vast land area and ocean area of ​​the area, but also because of the small permanent population in this area.

The total number of local indigenous peoples is only a few hundred thousand, the primitive area is vast, and the scientific research task is arduous. However, a rough inspection of the data shows that this area is actually valuable enough to be described as every inch of land is worth a lot!

In terms of location alone, the north of Anyuan's jurisdiction belongs to the coastal area of ​​the Arctic Ocean. The northernmost coastal defense base point is the New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, which is a tentacle deep into the Arctic; the south is connected to the land of Heilongjiang, Jilin Province, and the Kamchatka Peninsula.

, the Kuril Islands, Sakhalin Island and the Jilin coast surround the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, making the Sea of ​​Okhotsk the second inland sea of ​​the Qing Empire after the Bo Sea; the east side extends to the easternmost point of the Asian continent - the west coast of the Bering Strait

; The confrontation with Russia across the Yenisei River to the west greatly compressed the strategic space of Russia, Japan, the United States, Canada and other countries, and added a huge strategic buffer zone to the Qing Empire.

In terms of natural resources, Anyuan is a veritable "untapped natural treasure house"! It has vast wilderness, rolling mountains, tens of thousands of rivers and thousands of lakes, endless virgin forests and oceans, and

Dotted around the islands, the species and quantity of wild animals and plants are extremely rich. Almost all the natural resources needed for the current social development in Bac Ninh can be found here, especially precious metals and non-metallic precious minerals such as gold, silver, diamonds, etc.

And the reserves are huge!

This time, Kang Fan took the opportunity to accompany Mei Xiang to inspect the epidemic. He took the "Army 1" to Guangfu City, Sakhalin Island, and then took the "Snow Dragon-2" icebreaker of the local coast guard force to perform scientific research missions along the Anyuan coast.

An inspection was conducted along the western coastline of the jurisdiction.