MTL - The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria’s Mandate of Heaven-v3 Chapter 56 giant's heel
Poland is not the only hidden danger in Russia. What makes the Tsar even more troublesome are the mountain people living in the Caucasus, the Siberian tribes and the Cossacks.
Cossacks have been attached to Tsarist Russia since 1654. "Cossack" comes from the Turkic language, meaning "free man" or "plunderer", and was originally worshiped and revered by the Russians.
Although they came from humble origins, they longed for freedom and were unwilling to submit.
The rise of the Cossacks was a great threat to the south of Russia, and Alexei I adopted a soft policy at that time. Corrupting its top management with religion and money, and letting them use it for their own use, this trick really worked.
However, the Cossacks played little role in frontal large-scale battlefields, and did not reflect their talent for doing evil.
At the same time, these herdsmen are a double-edged sword that cannot be lost. The Cossacks only obeyed the leaders of their own tribe, and often had disputes because they did not obey the Russians' command, and they even killed the messenger.
Capriciousness is also their main characteristic. Later tsars took measures to strengthen their control over the Cossack tribes, such as canceling the democratic election rights of Ataman (chief), prohibiting them from accepting free people to join, and forcing some Cossacks to move to other places...
Chief among these was the delicate balance of dispersing and expending its power in order to allow it to participate in the conquest of Siberia.
Compared with the frontal battlefield, hunting and looting are what the Cossacks are best at. In the following hundreds of years, the aborigines of Siberia suffered terrible disasters.
During the Napoleonic Wars, the Cossack regiment began to have a formal organization. There was no way to do this. After all, Russia was already at a disadvantage at that time, and all available forces had to be mobilized.
But the Cossacks are still different from the Russian army, and they still use the tribal community as the unit. It wasn't until Nicholas I came to power that the Cossacks were forcibly organized into military districts.
In the second year of Nicholas I's reign, he invited the Cossack leaders around the Don River to St. Petersburg to accept the award. This is a Russian tradition, and every new tsar will use this method to win over the Cossacks.
However, about one-third of the Cossack leaders were not present. In fact, everyone had already tacitly understood these things.
Then those who were not present were the leaders of some powerful tribes, and the largest tribe had 5,000 soldiers alone.
These tribes add up to more than 100,000 people, and they are definitely a force not to be underestimated on the southern Russian prairie. Even if the tsar gets angry again, he can only persuade with good words, and at the same time increase the rewards for all Cossack tribes, in order to change this situation.
Every tsar wants to weaken the Cossacks, and this group of freedom-loving people naturally cannot let them be slaughtered. So he came up with this method to embarrass the Tsar, and at the same time don't try to ignore their existence.
It's just that what they waited for was not the messenger with gifts, but Nicholas I's guard cavalry. The Russian army attacked the most powerful Cossack tribe in the Don River Basin with a strong force of 40,000.
Cossacks are also known as "cannibals" in Siberia, but in front of real war machines, they are as pitiful and helpless as the aborigines who were massacred by them.
This slaughtered tribe quickly disappeared in the long river of history, and the heads of the chief and his male heir were sent to St. Petersburg.
But the massacre did not stop. After the first tribe was wiped out, the Tsar's guard cavalry rushed to the second tribe without stopping.
After Russia was reformed by Peter I, it was not allowed to record merit by cutting off ears and heads. However, if the "leaders" of the cavalry guards want to show off their merits, they can only do so by building landscapes.
Ever since, a large number of corpses were piled up together to form various landscapes. But now it is just a prototype, and only after the wolf and the goshawk eat up the flesh and blood from the corpse can we see the true face of the "work".
As more and more heads of Cossack tribal leaders were sent to St. Petersburg for exhibition, a Cossack leader named "Migo" jumped out to accuse the tsar of brutal rule, and he called on all Cossacks to unite to fight against this evil. tyrant.
However, no one responded to Migo's call. The young Cossack leader was quickly arrested and sent to Nicholas I.
Facing Nicholas I, who was 2.05 meters tall and strong, even the unruly goshawks on the grassland showed fear.
The Tsar drew Migo's scimitar and broke it with his bare hands in front of him.
(Nicolas I is said to be very strong, and one of his biggest hobbies is to break people's sabers. As for why not sabers? Because he basically dealt with Cossacks and Tatars.)
"Your Majesty the Great Tsar, I would like to kiss your boots and be your most loyal servant." Migo understood that he could not defeat the man in front of him. Although Nicholas I had just become the Tsar, he was under pressure and did not know How many times have I heard this oath.
Nicholas I didn't speak, just patted Migo on the shoulder, then picked up the broken knife from the ground, and cut off the opponent's head bit by bit with the knife.
The surrounding Russian military officers and Cossack leaders watched quietly, only the sound of knives cutting flesh and blood splattering.
And every year after that something similar was repeated, the Cossacks at that time had a song.
Over the Volga, over the Kama,
Free Cossacks live forever.
The great chiefs whispered to their companions,
Indomitable Cossacks, my countrymen,
Summer goes to winter, where is our shelter?
Is it curled up in the Volga, shady like a thief?
Or raid Kazan and challenge the Tsar?
But the tsar sent 40,000 troops, how can we parry?
We'll find another way, another way,
come with me brothers,
Let's go to Siberia.
However, the Tsar did not stop at the southern Russian prairie, but strengthened his control over the Cossacks step by step, and any tribe that dared to resist would be wiped out.
The Ataman system was finally abolished under Nicholas I's strong hand. After that, Russia divided the Cossacks into military districts. Until 1837, Russia had established ten Cossack military districts, which marked that St. Petersburg's control of Cossacks reached a new height. .
At that time, Nicholas I believed that "the Cossacks are a group of hungry wolves, and they have no so-called loyalty. Once Russia is weak, they may be the first batch to rise up and join the rebel army."
So Russia needs to stay strong all the time, and so is the rebellion in the Caucasus.
The Chechens, Georgians, Daghestans, and Ingush people in the Caucasus Mountains are not easy to conquer. Historically, they have continued to resist since the early nineteenth century until the Russian giant fell in Kerry Mia, the two sides only temporarily compromised.
Successive governors of the Caucasus have been ruthless characters. Starting from the first governor, Alexey Ermolov, he has established the combat principle of "shoot to kill and never show mercy": the enemy and rebels can be killed on the spot without interrogation. execution; the family members of the enemy are also sitting together, leaving no one alive; local women can be abducted at will or used as spoils of war.
In the propaganda of later generations of Britain and the United States, Yermolov was an out-and-out executioner, and even burned millions of acres of forests in order to eliminate the local guerrillas.
He wrote in a letter to Tsar Nicholas I.
"I just want my order to be more feared by the locals than the call of death...In the eyes of Asians, kindness is cowardice. Don't call me inhumane, I am truly humane by doing this: every execution of a Caucasian It means that hundreds of thousands of Russians are saved from death, and it also means that thousands of barbarians dare not rebel...
I am a Russian, and being humane to the Russians is the real humanity. "
Although Nicholas I later dismissed him and recalled him to St. Petersburg, Ermolov's successors continued his policy.
Until a governor named Yuskinov Petrovich took office, the situation in the Caucasus region had eased at that time, and then he took the opposite measure from his predecessors. He ordered the soldiers to treat them like family members. locals.
The governor plans to build hospitals, schools, churches, and a cannery locally to solve the local employment problem.
Then the worst rebellion in history broke out in the Caucasus and the Chechens gave back untouched what the Russians had done.
Hostages were strangled, old and weak women and children were massacred, and villages were razed to the ground.
The naive governor and his family were beaten ~www.novelbuddy.com~ for a week and then broken into thousands of pieces for people to eat.
Compared with the tough nations of the Cossacks and the Caucasus, the natives of Siberia have very gentle demands. They don't want revenge and just want to get back their land.
Others, such as the Decembrists and the Apostles, were not scabies. In the eyes of Franz, the most terrible enemy of Russia, Nicholas I did not realize, was the Anglophiles in Russia.
These people are short-sighted, trying to please Britain at the expense of Russia's interests, so as to achieve the goal of dominating the world, that is, the so-called co-hegemony of the world, which is simply whimsical.
In history, it was this group of people who ruined the advantages accumulated by Russia for hundreds of years and the momentum after the Napoleonic Wars, and made the country develop in another direction during the Crimean War.
Although Austria and Russia have many contradictions, and even often calculate each other, but with the latter standing in the way, the former can have a lot of time for development, which is very important for Austria.
(A lot of dialogues have been deleted. In order to prevent you from saying that I don’t count words, there are two poems written in the writer’s words. In addition, these words are not counted, so I deliberately counted them.)
