Near the border of the Selenga River, there was a melodious whistle, Liu Yu hummed a song, stepping on the first snow of the year.

"Like every young man, you will meet a girl. She will travel with you all the way, brave the wind and waves. Listen, the wind and snow are noisy; Look, the meteors are flying. My heart calls to me, to the turbulent distance......"

If the first snow is the beginning of winter, winter in the Mongolian plateau has already arrived.

Yesterday the burdock flowers were still blooming purple, but this morning they were covered with a layer of snow, and the crescent moon left by the horses' hooves winded to the horizon as far as the eye could see.

On the border line, a nine-rank official dressed in embroidered quail patches greeted him with several small officials who were prospecting.

They didn't recognize Liu Yu, but they knew the clothes Liu Yu was wearing.

On the north side of the invisible border, there were several young Russians, who seemed to be discussing the issue of demarcation with a few officials on the Dashun side just now.

The junior official led the little official to run over and salute, "I've seen the adult!" ”

The Jiupin Quail looked sideways at the team following Liu Yu, thinking that the guns these people were carrying were the same as the self-generated fire of the Rakshasa Guards.

Liu Yu jumped off the horse, dragged the map in the hand of the little official next to him, glanced at it twice, and asked, "How far is this from Qi Guogong's tent?" ”

"Back to my lord, there is still half a day to go."

"That's good. Great work. Keep busy. ”

When he turned over and was about to get on his horse, the young Russians from the north suddenly asked in Russian.

"Hello, Chinese officials. Are you from the Eastern Battlefield? ”

Liu Yu has a foundation in Latin in this life, although he can't learn the outrageous tongue vibrato of Russian, but after dangling in the east for more than a year, he has also learned a foundation of Russian, and he can still understand it now.

"Yes. Young man, is there something wrong? ”

The young Russian on the opposite side looked at the flintlock pistol tied to the horse of Liu Yu's guard, which was obviously produced by the Tula Arsenal, and hesitated for a moment and asked, "Have you ever seen a young man named Mikhail?" About my age, with brown hair and blue eyes, he was a man who set off with Bering's expedition. ”

It seems that the news of the capture of Bering's expedition has reached this side.

Otherwise, Liu Yu forgot that he had killed such a person. At the mention of this, he suddenly remembered that he had borrowed the young man's head, and asked, "Who are you?" ”

"He's my brother. Have you met him? ”

"Hmm...... Haven't seen it. Maybe captured? I am here to negotiate, and after the negotiations are over, the prisoners of war will be released, and I wish you and your brother a speedy meeting. ”

"Thank you, you're such a nice guy."

The young man took off his hat and bowed to Liu Yu, probably smelling the smell of cigarettes that Liu Yu had accumulated on his body along the way, and took out a cigarette purse from his pocket and handed it over.

"Please try it, Virginia tobacco, which my family brought back from France. Swallow it like cream......"

The pusher refused, jumped on the horse and slipped away.

walked out for a long time, and Liu Yu quietly glanced back. You can kill people on the battlefield as much as you want, just order a random one like a red flower and shoot it, this thing is really a little not authentic.

"Third master, what did the Rakshasa ghost say?"

"It's nothing, hahaha, it's just torture and torture my conscience."

The steamed bun that has taken off his slave status and has a flying horse captain still calls Liu Yu like before.

He also looked back and said strangely: "Third master, you said that there is still a war in the east, why is the west so quiet?" We don't fight, and they don't fight either? ”

"What do you say?"

"I don't know." Mantou shook his head, finding it difficult to understand.

"Think about it slowly. Figured it out, tell me. He smiled at the steamed bun and turned around and shouted: "Keep up, keep up, accelerate the speed, get to the place before dark, and get a good night's sleep!" ”

In the evening.

Qi Guogong Tian Suo was having dinner, the small copper stove was boiling on the red-hot charcoal fire, a few slices of white and tender mutton were tumbling up and down, and the two fiery red peppers in the soup were driving away the chill outside.

The tent was suddenly lifted, and a cold wind blew Tian Suo shivered, and he was about to open his mouth to scold.

"Guogong! The third son of the Wing Kingdom family is here. ”

"Oops! It's coming! ”

Hearing this, the little bit of fire just now suddenly disappeared.

Throwing down the chopsticks, he didn't put on a big hat, jumped up, pulled open the tent and rushed out.

Liu Yu had just dismounted, and he was slapping his frozen and numb knee joints, baring his teeth and scolding the ghost weather here.

Seeing Qi Guogong coming from a distance, he was about to salute, but he was supported by Qi Guogong.

"Okay, when you're out on the road, don't be so polite. Haven't eaten yet, have you? Exactly, come on, come on...... But I don't know what to do if I don't come again. ”

"Come on, go and arrange to come together, eat something first."

beckoned someone to come over, and he had already been prepared, but he didn't expect Liu Yu to come so soon.

After entering the tent, Liu Yu made the first stop and did not sit down directly.

Roasted his hands, and waited until Qi Guogong asked him to sit down, and then sat aside.

The entourage brought wine and chopsticks, and Qi Guogong asked the entourage to go out, and there was no one outside.

On the table was a small copper stove with hot soup, fresh lamb and simple leek sauce on the table.

"There's nothing to eat when you're out on the road. Emperor Taizong loved to eat this back then, and it is said that he wanted to get some chili peppers before he became seriously ill. Taizong's way of eating doesn't use leek sauce, but now that I'm here, I really have some taste. ”

Liu Yu smiled, looking at the chili peppers and peppers in the copper furnace, and didn't know what came to mind.

Half stood up and poured a glass of wine for Qi Guogong, Qi Guogong praised him: "Boy, you did a good job in the east, I've heard about it." If the east side fights well, the Rakshasas in the west will not dare to move. They did not dare to go to the east, nor did they dare to come and beat me, but they sat with me in the tent every day, from spring to winter. ”

Raising the wine glass as he spoke, Liu Yu hurriedly lowered his touch. After sandwiching two pieces of mutton, my body finally warmed up.

"I don't know what Qi Guogong and the Rakshasa people talked about?"

"I didn't talk about anything serious. Before the fight, as you said, talk about the emperor and Caesar, talk about Barcelus, talk about etiquette, talk about Mongolia in the Volga River. No matter what I talk about, as long as I bring it up, they will take the initiative to argue with me. ”

At that time, listening to those Rakshasas muttering and blushing was much more interesting than meditating every day now. In the previous negotiations, he also knew something further away.

Only then did I know that the Turgots of Warat Mongolia were recruited by the Rakshasas a few years ago to participate in the Great Northern War, and the Rakshasas believed that the Turgots were their vassals.

When it comes to the Warat Mongols on the Volga River, the faces of the Rakshasas are not as good as those of Caesar or the emperor.

Thinking of the previous appearance of those rakshasas who were in a hurry to lose their popularity and nag clearly, Qi Guogong couldn't help but laugh.

After laughing, his expression gradually became serious.

Stretched out his hand to support Liu Yu, who was about to add wine to him, shook his head and said, "Don't be busy drinking the wine first." This battle is actually very dangerous. Now that I think about it, I'm still a little scared. ”

There was no one else around, and Qi Guogong didn't hide anything, and said directly: "Your Majesty is still too anxious after all." According to the previous assumption of the DPRK and China, it is roughly correct to start with the west and then the east. But if you hadn't done a great job in the east and revitalized the situation, this battle wouldn't have been good. ”

"Good job. I haven't mistaken you, my old eyes. ”

Hearing Qi Guogong praise himself like this, Liu Yu hurriedly said: "Guogong is serious. ”

"Is it heavy? I think it's light! In a siege battle like Muli Jiwei, as long as we fight two more times, the Rakshasa people will understand our catties. Chaozhong miscalculated this time and completely underestimated the Rakshasas. It is said that if you don't think about winning, you will lose first, and the battle against the Rakshasa is clearly exactly what you think is easy to win, and you don't think about what to do if the fight doesn't go well. ”

At this time, it seemed that the overall situation had been decided, and Qi Guogong looked at the entire battle situation from the perspective of hindsight, and couldn't help but sweat.

The tragic siege of Muriji seemed to have killed only a thousand people, but in fact, it was the elite of a country, and in the end, it directly filled in the veterans of the pillar of combat effectiveness at the grassroots level.

If Liu Yu had not fought easily in the east, and had not written a new siege method in advance, so that the emperor would have been equivalent to changing generals in battle, after the siege of Mulijiwei, Dashun could only take the way of siege.

Because if you fight two more battles and attack two cities, the army's heart will be shaken by the war, and the main general in front of the battle will inevitably kneel and beg the emperor to turn into a siege.

In that case, the whole battle situation will be completely different.

Before the imperial court sent troops, it looked at the Rakshasas too simply and underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Rakshasas: it couldn't be more obvious, the emperor personally conquered, and there were a total of seven fortresses in the Heilongjiang River basin.

When summer arrives to start the war, the army must be withdrawn before the spring, because the spring in the northeast cannot fight, and in the spring in the tundra region, even the march is like swimming in the melting mud.

Excluding the time of the march, the east and west marched side by side, apparently at the rate of twenty days to capture a fort. No one ever thought about what if they couldn't capture one in an average of twenty days?

Judging from their experience in the Southwest Tusi and the late Ming Dynasty wars, the number of Rakshasa forts is only hundreds, and how can they capture one in twenty days.

It was precisely because Liu Yu unexpectedly took two forts in the east, and the subsequent siege battle on the Ergun River was really qualified, which made the judgment of the Rakshasas skewed.

So much so that they were afraid that Dashun would launch an offensive on the Mongolian border on the Western Front, and with the help of Mongolian cavalry and Dashun artillery, besieged the fortress on Lake Baikal.

That's why the weird scene is now. The war on the Eastern Front was not over, but the Western Front was negotiating and sit-in, and both sides maintained restraint on the Western Front.

Speaking of this, Qi Guogong was still in a cold sweat.

"Soon after the start of the war, after the Acropolis of Mount Muruhan and the Acropolis of Muriji were destroyed, the Rakshasas asked me to negotiate. To be honest, I was scared too. I'm afraid that the Rakshasas will catch me and detain me. ”

"But I can't help it, if I don't go at that time, it will be tantamount to showing timidity. The Rakshasas did not go to support the eastern front, but they could go south on the western front. I had no choice but to bite the bullet and go without saying a word, and asked someone to continue to survey the border map. ”

"The Rakshasas did not expect the two castles to be captured so quickly, and they are extremely panicked about our siege methods, fearing that if the war is expanded, the fortress near Lake Baikal will also be in danger. Therefore, I had a tacit understanding, and we didn't say a word during the negotiations, but in private we continued to send people to cooperate in surveying and mapping at the border. ”

Speaking of this, he pointed outside and whispered: "This is not a thousand-mile uninhabited place like the northeast, after all, there are many Mongolian tribes, and the nobles of each tribe can also pull out a team of thousands of people." Although we can't fight and will collapse at the first touch, the Rakshasa people are afraid that we will send a small number of artillery and infantry to support, and we really have the ability to attack the fort in the east. The 3,000 people I brought with me may not be able to fight, but standing there still frightened the Rakshasas. ”

"The Rakshasas don't want to fight, and we don't want to fight either. But if the east doesn't go well, it won't be the way it is now. What is the combat power of the Khalkha Mongolian cavalry, the Rakshasa people still know in their hearts. Your merit, in my opinion, is not an exaggeration to be named a baron. But it's also a good thing that it's not sealed. ”