Chapter 374: I have never seen a few officers and soldiers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Red Army appear in this area. It seems to have emerged from below, and suddenly...

Of course, his Omsk reserve army has already formed an army after all. However, he knows exactly what the real combat power of this army will be like.

With such a mob, Kaufmann was still very confident in his heart if he dealt with the "Qing Kingdom" in the past. After all, the way to deal with the "Qing Kingdom" requires two tricks, one is to bluff and another is to snatch it to death. These two tricks are exactly what his mobs are best at.

But if such an army is used to deal with a real army that has fought for tens of thousands of miles and regards the fight between blood and fire as a common occurrence, Kaufman will be left with ambiguity.

At this time, his Tsar Majesty seemed to have quite sympathized with his situation. Just when he did not want to really fight with the army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he was afraid that he would follow in the footsteps of Governor Petrosky, his Tsar Majesty gave him a very timely secret edict.

In this secret decree, his Tsar Majesty told him helplessly that because the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom army was too fierce and too capable of fighting, the war situation on the Eastern Front was increasingly developing in a direction that was not conducive to them. In order to avoid the greater losses of the empire as much as possible, his Tsar Majesty had authorized the commander of the Eastern Front to replace war whenever he had no choice.

Finally, his Tsar Majesty also warned him that he should first use fighting as the starting point, and that the Western Front he led could fight and win, so that he could at least gain more capital for the Eastern Front. However, if he really couldn't continue to fight in the end, then use negotiation methods to fight for the empire's vested interests without harm.

After receiving this secret edict, Kaufman really admired his tsar's wiseness and was completely impressed by his tsar's pride.

If it weren't for his reminder from His Majesty the Tsar, he would have almost forgotten that there was a trick of "negotiation" at critical moments.

So, the very realistic Kaufman immediately took the secret edict of His Tsar, abandoned the starting point of "beating", and directly entered the "negotiation" state.

Because Kaufman was confident about the "negotiation". He had thought about it over and over again and for a long time. The territories he controlled are all products of history and even more certain. Iron facts, no matter where they go, they will stand on his side.

Sure enough, when he took Zaharov and his group with his existing line of actual control as the temporary border between the two countries, both sides must respect each other's sovereignty. If there is any objection, they can be left to the two governments to resolve the problem in the future. It should be considered a very restrained plan. When he went to Huiyuan City for the first time, although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom gave great contempt for the plan he proposed, it did not reveal any bad signs of resolving the dispute between the two sides by force.

Kaufman was happy because, from the attitude shown by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he had already seen the guilt of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government. Especially when the Zaharov he sent out gave him another message, that is, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom army stationed in Xinjiang was about to follow the instructions of their government and most of them were going to settle for their livelihood, he was so beautiful that his nose was about to flow out.

So Kaufman then sent a border negotiating delegation to Huiyuan City for the second time and the third time. As for whether the negotiations were reached or not, he didn't care. The key was to let the negotiations go. If we could negotiate for decades or hundreds of years, wouldn't it be wonderful?

Of course, Kaufman, who was a soldier, was definitely not a professional negotiator, and would not be immersed in the seemingly good situation in front of him. He also knew one thing, that is, if he wanted to never get beaten, the best way was to find a permanent enemy for his enemies.

So, who will this "enemy enemy" be? Obviously, it is the only one General Lambert who is busy in Kokand.

However, although the "enemy enemy" has existed and the imagined "peace talks" are also underway, Kaufman is still in a hurry to jump over the wall.

In May, perhaps because Kaufman's Omsk Reserve Legion's life has been too difficult for a period of time. His officers and soldiers stationed at the western foot of Kulongkui Mountain and controlling a battalion-level stronghold that Yili was about to enter the west, finally could not stand the hard days of lack of oil and water. They ignored his repeated orders and continued to touch the actual control line of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, saying that it was "stealing", but in fact, it was the armed robbery that had robbed dozens of sheep from the local Taiping Heavenly Kingdom people.

This annoyed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Five days later, in this area where the officers and soldiers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had not seen several officers and soldiers appear in the past few months. It seemed as if they had emerged from below. Suddenly, a large number of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Red Army troops emerged. After a few seconds, they massacred more than 400 officers and soldiers who had just filled their stomachs with dozens of sheep they had snatched up, and slaughtered them all without leaving any left.

Kaufmann not only lost a stronghold that he had worked hard for months, but also tragically, with the loss of this stronghold, his two pieces of power that could echo north and south were isolated in two halves.

The only thing that Kaufman is fortunate that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was not right. Because the Red Army troops, which had completely occupied the initiative in tactical action, did not carry out further and fiercer blows on him after this fierce revenge operation, nor did they make any so-called written or verbal protests to him, as if nothing had happened, and immediately fell into that common silence. Of course, Kaufman would inevitably be very shocked.

So, no matter what, Kaufman is still very optimistic now.

Because he had stabilized the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom army in front of him. At the same time, he not only found a good comrade who could reduce the burden, but also got a lot of specific benefits from this good comrade.

Lambert was also optimistic. Although he did not have too many expectations for his Tsarist Russian comrades, he was not very suspicious that his Tsarist Russian comrades would not sell any strength at critical moments.

Unfortunately, just like the members of the secret peace mission of Kokand arrived, they didn't know what the identity of the "General Mao" sitting in front of them was. Whether it was Lambert or Kaufman, they naturally couldn't figure out the true background of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

So, who is the "General Mao" who always Lahakan's peace mission at critical moments?
Chapter completed!