Chapter 1244 Russian Trouble
As expected, the public trial of Paskevich was very ineffective. The bloody massacre not only failed to deter the people, but also made those people heroes.
This is the consequence of too single a means. People's tolerance for blood will continue to increase. In fact, people are not stupid. They know who is a good person, but they dare not express it or go with the flow.
Because the ideal effect was not achieved, Paskevich did not dare to take risks.
The current situation in Poland is very similar to that in Chechnya, except that the Chechens will not be so shameless as to attack the rear baggage. But the Poles will. From the previous combat records, we know that the Poles like to attack the supply team very much.
The advantage of attacking the supply team is that the Russian army will lack supplies and thus lose morale. At the same time, it can also replenish the supplies that are lacking on their side, and it can also boost morale.
Most of the Poles are militias and volunteers who are brave for a while. Morale is particularly important to these people.
Russian Poland may be a tiny country in Russia's eyes, but there are four or five million soldiers and civilians on this land. If it is placed in the German Confederation, it is definitely a strong country, and even in Europe, it is a medium-sized country.
Paskevich's 100,000 troops are still a little short of the national strength to confront Russian Poland
However, Russia's troubles are not only Poland at this time. The Cossacks on the southern Russian steppes have long been accustomed to taking advantage of the fire and raising prices.
After discovering that Russia's war in Russian Poland was tight, they immediately put forward their own demands. They asked for tax reduction, reduced service years, and more rewards and land.
However, no monarch would be willing to accept such naked robbery, let alone the hot-tempered Nicholas I?
But Nicholas I also knew that now was not the time to deal with this group of Cossacks, so at the suggestion of Duke Uvarov, he decided to send someone to negotiate with them to ease the situation.
Duke Uvarov's idea was to appease these Cossacks first, and even temporarily agree to some of their conditions, and then deal with these troublesome guys after the Polish issue was resolved.
Uvarov believed that the Cossacks were simply a mess, and as long as the conditions were favorable to some powerful tribes, they would agree.
Once these people agreed to Russia's delaying tactics, the fragile trust of the Cossacks would disappear, and once they were divided internally, the so-called alliance of the Cossacks would no longer exist.
A group of scattered soldiers could not compete with the powerful Russia. When the Russian army had time to deal with a few thorns, the rest would be honest, and there might not even be a need for war. Those Cossacks would optimize themselves and choose to be loyal again.
However, man's plan is not as good as God's plan. The Russian envoy had a conflict with a group of drunken Cossacks as soon as he entered the grassland, and the Russian envoy was killed in the battle.
This made things troublesome. Since the troops of several Cossack tribes were mixed together, no one was willing to admit that it was their own people who killed the Russian envoy, and the Tsar was even less likely to choose to swallow his anger.
After all, the killing of the ambassador was a serious matter. It was not only about Russia's reputation and the Tsar's personal prestige, but also a serious challenge to Russia's rule.
At this point, there was no room for maneuver for both sides. The war in the southern Russian steppes started again. Nicholas I decided to send Duke Uvarov to completely suppress the rebellion of the Cossacks in southern Russia.
At this time, the Cossacks in southern Russia were in a panic. After all, they did not want to really launch a rebellion, but just wanted to get some wool.
In addition, the news of Imam Shamil's return came from the Caucasus. At the beginning, under the siege of Paskevich, Imam Shamil fled into the mountains with only 14 people.
No one thought that Imam Shamil could make a comeback. His men were almost wiped out, and even the men in Dagestan and Chechnya were few and far between.
Paskevich was not a good man. Before returning to St. Petersburg, he insisted on the policy of leaving land but not people, moving local people to southern Russia and then moving Russians to Chechnya.
Any Chechen who resisted migration was severely punished, either exiled to Siberia or directly sentenced to death.
This cruelty has exceeded the threshold that ordinary people can endure, and even an unyielding nation like the Chechens temporarily succumbed.
So at first no one believed the news of Imam Shamil's return, but soon he did several major things, forcing the Russians to believe this cruel fact.
Imam Shamil's troops soon grew to thousands of people, and were equipped with a lot of new equipment and almost endless supplies.
In fact, Imam Shamil was not a magician who could turn beans into soldiers, but was supported by some countries.
The Russians' encroachment on the Ottoman Empire caused panic in the Persian Empire. It happened that Imam Shamil was seeking support after his defeat, and the Ottomans and Persians hit it off with him.
Imam Shamil's troops immediately recovered and got a long-term channel to obtain supplies.
Instead of being afraid of the Russians attacking, it is better to find something for the Russians to do, so that the Russians will not have time to continue to invade the south.
So the two countries welcomed people like Imam Shamil, after all, this would save a lot of manpower compared to their own.
The current situation of the Persian Empire is not much better than that of the Ottoman Empire. After the Treaty of Turkmenchay, Persia also ceded a large area of land to Russia.
Even worse than the Ottomans was that the British set their sights on the Persian Gulf, and the Persian Empire had to suffer a double attack from Britain and Russia.
The Qajar dynasty was also in its twilight years, and the feudal dynasty was plagued by problems and contradictions. The internal royal regime, local family separatism, and external unequal treaties restricted the dynasty's economic development and reform.
The Qajar dynasty also carried out reforms to save itself, but the religious and conservative forces in the country were too strong, and the pace of reform was extremely difficult.
If Russia could continue the unrest, they could also breathe a sigh of relief.
Although Imam Shamil's troops were not many, the new governor of the Caucasus had begun to have a headache. As the governor of the Caucasus, Anatoly Petrov had 50,000 troops, but he felt that he had no idea where to start.
Those who could succeed Paskevich were naturally not incompetent, but Anatoly Petrov needed to protect the Russian immigrants who had just arrived, while also insisting on the migration work left by his predecessor.
On the other hand, Imam Shamil's main activity area was in the mountainous area, and a large number of troops were needed to carry out an effective encirclement and suppression.
At this time, the troops in Anatoly Petrov's hands seemed a little insufficient. If the rear was lost, all the previous efforts would be wasted. If the roaming Imam rebels could not be eliminated as soon as possible, the consequences would also be very serious.
Although Anatoly Petrov did not know that someone was behind the scenes, it was not difficult for him to see that the Imam rebels were growing rapidly from the stronger and stronger Imam rebels.
Although all this was somewhat unreasonable, Anatoly Petrov could not care so much. Now he thought the most rational thing to do was to ask for help from St. Petersburg.