Myanmar launched the Water Curse Incident and killed more than 30 Ming officials, which made the Ming court angry and the whole country angry.

On July 18, in the tide of national condemnation, Emperor Tianwu Zhu Cilang formally issued an edict, ordering the Southern Army Governor's Office, the Nanyang Protectorate, and the Ming Dynasty Royal Navy to launch all three armies to attack Myanmar and destroy the king!

Just after the edict to conquer Myanmar was issued, a bad news came to the Forbidden City.

Qi Guangyang, the great archer of the Western Protectorate, sent a military report: Sengge, the great khan of the Junggar Khan Kingdom, was assassinated by his half-brothers Chechen Taiji and Zhuotbathur. Because Sengge's three young ages were still difficult to continue, the Junggar tribe fell into internal strife.

At the same time, Tsarist Russia in the north formed an alliance with the Kazakh Khanate and formed a coalition under the banner of supporting Chechnya Taiji and Zhuotbabatul, and took the opportunity to invade southern Xinjiang, with no less than 100,000 troops!

They first sent the vanguard of the Cossack cavalry to invade the areas where the Junggars lived, and bloodied several tribes opposed to Chechen Taiji, burned down villages, massacred and plundered nearly a thousand Junggars.

The Western Protectorate immediately sent troops to Junggar to rescue the siege, and fought fiercely with the Kazakh Khanate army in the Tianshan area. Under the strong firepower attack of the Ming army, the Kazakh Khanate was defeated and thousands of people were killed on the spot.

However, the Tsarist Russian army suddenly went south to attack the empty Ili River Valley of the Ming army. The main force of the Ming army was unable to return to the aid. The Kazakh Khanate and the Junggar rebels jointly fought back, so they had to retreat to the Turpan Protectorate Camp.

After receiving this military report, Zhu Ciyang immediately woke up and the polar bear indeed took the opportunity to reach out to the Ili River Valley!

Not only Tsarist Russia, but also Myanmar's coup, suddenly lured and killed Ming officials, and the British must be behind it.

After careful consideration, Zhu Cilang keenly realized that this was the beginning of Western countries to join forces to curb the Ming Dynasty!

First, the British supported the Myanmar coup, and then the Tsarist Russia supported the Junggar tribe's coup. Eliminated the kings and Khans enthroned by the Ming Dynasty, and took the initiative to deploy troops to the Ming Dynasty's borders, showing a north-south echo. This must have happened not by chance, but a conspiracy that had been brewing!

The Ming Dynasty has developed rapidly in recent years, deployed globally and strengthened its influence, which has seriously shaken the hegemony of several Western powers in their respective regions and posed a threat to them. The major powers know that they are unable to fight against the Ming Dynasty alone? They have to join forces to fight and weaken the Ming Dynasty layer by layer.

Tsarist Russia and England? Openly demanded that the Junggar tribe and Myanmar break away from the clan relations of the Ming Dynasty and become an independent country.

Once the Ming Dynasty loses one of these places, will its international status plummet? Zhu Cixuan will definitely not let them succeed!

In the previous wars against Russia, the Northern Protectorate was fighting, and the Western Protectorate had never encountered Russians.

A Russian soldier was tall and big, rough, cruel and warlike? Especially his personal hand-to-hand combat ability was quite strong, which left a deep impression on the Ming army.

Although the current war mode is not many opportunities for hand-to-hand combat? But the Russian army still cannot be underestimated.

The Western Regions are vast and the population is small? There are many deserts and harsh environments? The troops of the Western Protectorate are limited? They are scattered to defend important cities such as Kashgar, and face the coalition forces between Tsarist Russia and Kazakhstan.

Qi Guangyang realized that the situation was complicated? The enemy was coming in full force? It posed a great threat to the Western Regions? So he immediately asked Nanjing for reinforcements regardless of his face.

After receiving the request for help from the Western Protectorate, Zhu Cixuan began to seriously think about the issue in the western desert.

Although he attaches great importance to the ocean, it does not mean that he does not attach importance to land, even in the barren land of the Western Regions.

For a country, land is the basic one. The larger the land of a country, the better. Only by owning a vast amount of land can the country remain strong!

This is proven in the development of history!

Britain once claimed to be the Empire of Sun and Japan also established a *** Circle, but because its local area was too small and its foundation was unstable, it eventually declined.

Those who have always remain strong are countries with vast territory. Even if they decline temporarily, they can still rise again after they recover.

The vast land area is their greatest foundation!

Zhu Cilang hopes to try his best to expand the territory of the Ming Dynasty in his lifetime and lay a solid foundation for the development of future generations and descendants!

In Wuying Hall, Zhu Cilang held an imperial meeting, and all military aircraft and cabinet ministers attended.

The Intelligence Department routinely introduced the situation in the Northwest and the situation in Tsarist Russia.

Since the Battle of Yaquesa in the eleventh year of Tianwu, the Russian army was defeated. The commander of the Nibchu defender asked Moscow for help, asking for at least 50,000 troops to be dispatched in the country to reach the east, so that he could fight with the Ming army and recapture the Far East.

At that time, the Tsarist Russian emperor Alexei was overwhelmed by domestic affairs. He ignored the advice of the Far Eastern Army and simply gave up Siberia.

Alexey was the second tsar of the Romanov dynasty, the father of Peter the Great.

This guy is the same age as Zhu Cilang, and he is only ten days away from his birthday. He ascended the throne one year later than Zhu Cilang (he ascended the throne in the second year of Tianwu).

Alexey received a good education since childhood. He began to learn to write at the age of five, started to learn to write at the age of seven, started to study in a church choir at the age of nine, and saved up the books he had read at the age of twelve to build a small family library.

His life trajectory can be said to be very similar to Zhu Cilang, and both like to read.

Alexey was nine years old when he was young, and at that time the most knowledgeable person in Russia ascended the throne as the tsar. He was even more ambitious and tried to make Russia stronger.

Coincidentally, the situation in Russia at that time was similar to that of the Ming Dynasty. It was generally a chaotic era of sluggishness and hidden dangers.

There is also a strong enemy from the north, Sweden, who firmly controls the business roads to Europe; to the west are the kingdoms of feudal Poland and Lithuania, which occupy a series of important towns led by Smolensk and threaten Moscow at all times;

The southwest is Ukraine, which belongs to Poland. The Cossack cavalry coming to the Ukrainian prairie is also a serious threat to Moscow; to the south is the Krim Khanate, a Turkish vassal state that invaded Russia countless times in centuries;

Only the southern grasslands were obedient to Moscow but still independent of the Don Cossacks outside Tsarist Russia.

It was in this environment that Tsar Alexey pacified the domestic peasant uprising, carried out religious reforms, and personally conquered Poland and Ukraine to the outside world, and finally officially incorporated Eastern Ukraine on the east bank of the Dnieper River into the Russian territory.

After quelling internal and external troubles, Tsar Alexey began to turn his attention to the situation in the East.

The re-emergence of the Ming Dynasty in the Far East has caused doubts among the Russians, especially the Silk Road re-established by the Ming Dynasty in recent years, which posed a huge threat to Russia's interests in Central Asia.

And England and France also don’t want to see a Ming Empire that grows bigger by themselves!

Therefore, several countries began to establish consulates with each other and conduct political consultations.

The envoy's running finally achieved some results and began to form an alliance against the Ming Dynasty. Russia first issued a tough letter to the Ming Dynasty: "The Ming army must withdraw from the Far East and return Russian castles such as Nebchu and Yaksa, otherwise they will bear great responsibility!"
Chapter completed!