The Kuznetsk fortress is about a thousand miles from Tomsk, and the road is not very easy to walk, and it is summer, and the mountain trails in many places are even more muddy, but there are still traces to follow, and when you reach the plains, the swampy terrain there is even more terrible.

Sun Chuanting arrived the day after He Renlong and their capture of the city, and there were 20,000 soldiers who came with him, and after waiting for two more days, the supply team of the brigade also arrived here under the leadership of Cao Wenzhao. They need to thoroughly understand the land and climate conditions in this area here, otherwise they will lead the troops to rush in, and if they don't get it right, they will be in danger of being wiped out, but fortunately, this capture of the city was very successful, and the people in the city did not escape, which provided a guarantee for the secrecy of the next operation.

In order to ensure the success of the raid, Sun Chuanting tried all means, thinking that He Renlong had blown up the garrison headquarters at once, and all the military materials stored there had been destroyed, and the angry Zhang Bingzhong kicked him in the ass several times, knowing that he had made a mistake, and He Renlong, who almost took his own life, faced Zhang Bingzhong's big feet, he didn't hide, and smiled stupidly, the level of detail of the military information in the barracks was much worse than that of the headquarters.

In order to solve this problem of the advance route, Zhang Bingzhong came up with a trick, he singled out all the officers in the Russian captives, asked each of them to draw a road map from Kuznetsk to Tomsk, and told them that if whoever drew the best was adopted by Marshal Sun Chuanting, he would not have to do coolies and could be released home, but whoever dared to deliberately set a trap, sorry, his result would be unexpectedly sad.

In order to prevent them from colluding with each other, Zhang Bingzhong locked them in different rooms, and anyone who refused to draw a picture was directly shot. Then they draw a map and let them explain for themselves why such and such a place can be passed, or why it can't be passed. I combined them all and researched them myself, and finally came up with a map that I could use.

Under the protection of the guards, Sun Chuanting went deep into the homes of the people in the fortress, like those non-Russians to understand the situation. Not to mention, through this understanding, I know that in addition to the Russians, there are many other people in this fortress, such as the indigenous Tatars, Kyrgyz, Kalmyks, etc., among which the Kalmyks are also considered semi-native, and the Kyrgyz are mostly captured, and their identities are all serfs, they were all captured by the Russians during the tribal war, and then they were distributed or sold to soldiers as serfs.

Sun Chuanting was most interested in the Kyrgyz people, because they used to roam the area, and when they told stories about the past, they realized how chaotic this land used to be. There were Tatars, Kyrgyz, Kalmyks, native natives, Mongols, etc., and later the Mongols went south, and the Kyrgyz became the masters here, and later the Tatars invited the Russians to settle here, because the Russian Cossack bandits wiped out the Siberian Khanate, and their tentacles had reached here, and the Tatars showed favor to them, took the initiative to surrender, and obtained their support, so they went to drive away the Kyrgyz.

Sun Chuanting identified some veterans from these Kyrgyz people, asked them to recall the terrain in the area, and the route that could reach Tomsk smoothly, and promised them that if they won the victory, they could all resume their civilian status and give them freedom.

The Kyrgyz, eager for freedom, tried their best to coordinate and discuss the route to Tomsk, drawing map after map, which was rough but very detailed.

Sun Chuanting compared this map with the map drawn by Zhang Bingzhong, and found that there are still many places where the roads are not the same, considering the difference in time, the terrain may undergo some changes, it should be Zhang Bingzhong's more reliable, but it must be more reliable, and the necessary caution for marching and fighting should still be.

Just when Sun Chuanting, Zhang Bingzhong, Cao Wenzhao, He Renlong, and Shuo Lei were trying their best to study the route of the march, several Kyrgyz people came to them. It turned out that they thought that if they wanted to get rid of the serf status, they had to help the Ming army win the war, so these veterans decided to follow the army as guides, and it is said that there was a person among them who knew how to see the heavens, and Sun Chuanting agreed to their request.

After a few days of research, the road to the march was finally determined, Sun Chuanting prepared 10,000 people to go out, accompanied by Zhang Bingzhong and Shuolei, Zhang Bingzhong This guy is brave and strategic, Shuolei is fluent in Russian, of course, these Kyrgyz people also know Russian, but Sun Chuanting feels that Shuolei is more reassuring to him.

Cao Wenzhao needed to stay and stay in the Kuznetsk fortress, as for He Renlong, Sun Chuanting asked him to cooperate with Cao Wenzhao in this area to clean up the nearby Russian forces, and also prepare winter materials before winter, and build castles in nearby valuable places, and the Russian captives left behind were coolies who built castles.

More than 10,000 troops, one person and two horses, plus the need to carry arms, food, materials and necessities, etc., almost 30,000 horses were used, this is a very large formation, the so-called war is a large material supply capacity, in this expedition has been very well experienced.

Along the way, the trails in many places were very difficult to walk, and thanks to the rich experience of these Kyrgyz veterans, they finally crossed the difficult mountain roads. In fact, the Russians came here to follow the river, but Sun Chuanting obviously didn't have so much time, he had to take Tomsko before winter, and then get supplies from Mao Wenlong's Mao Fort, Mao Wenlong is now fighting the Russian army, creating an opportunity for himself to attack Tomsk.

After passing through the mountains, to the plains and swampy areas, Sun Chuanting quickly advanced towards Tomsko, under the careful guidance of the Kyrgyz, and finally reached the destination in half a month in mid-August.

Located on the south side of a hill and on the other side of a tributary of the Ob River, Tomsco is not a fortified city, but a fortress built of brick and stone to defend against the invasion of the Kyrgyz and Kalmyk nomads, and now it will face the attack of Sun Chuanting's modern army.

In the city of Tomsk, the top military governor is Duke Kulagin, who has been here for ten years, and Tsar Mikhail Romanov's Chin Chamikhanovich is the interim administrator here, and the official governor Chernenko is at war with Mao Wenlong.

Faced with the sudden arrival of the army, and it was a large number, and there were advanced weapons such as artillery, Mihanovich's first thought was to escape, he was a noble son, or a playboy, because the family supported the Romanov family to ascend to the Tsar's throne, this became a favored vassal, he thought that he could get rid of the fetters of the family here, and act recklessly, but he didn't want to throw his life here, he also wanted to continue to enjoy the life of spending time and drinking.

Duke Kulagin didn't think so, if he couldn't keep the castle, he would return to Moscow, and he would be dethroned, and if he died here, his son would be able to keep the title, so he had only one way to go. But the helpless strength of this fortress is too small, and it is also the most ordinary local troops, so he is very troubled, and finally he decides to take out all the weapons in the warehouse and distribute them to all the residents in the fortress, so that they can help defend the city, and promise that if the defense of the city is successful, no taxes will be collected for three years from the residents who participate in the defense of the city.

But Kulagin still overestimated his strength and underestimated the ability of the Ming army. Upon his arrival, Sun Chuanting immediately captured a resident of the Tsarist Empire, handed over a notice for Kulagin to surrender immediately, and immediately surrounded the fortress, not allowing anyone to leave the fortress. When the time came, Sun Chuanting no longer waited, and ordered all the infantry artillery to start bombarding, and the wooden fortress door was blown up at the first time, and then the mortar fire next to the door was cleaned up, and then the soldiers began to enter the fortress, and the hand-cranked machine guns opened fire on all the living animals in the city under the cover of the infantry. The inhabitants of the Tsarist Empire, who were still fearless at first, were quickly routed by machine-gun fire and fled to Chernenko's estate, a relatively strong small fortress that had saved the lives of countless inhabitants of the Tsarist Empire under the iron cavalry of the nomads, and now Mikhanovich and Kulagin hid in it to direct the resistance of the fortress.

But such a manor did not play any role in the face of infantry artillery, but only played a role in the inhabitants of the Tsarist Empire, with the Ming army attacking like a bamboo, the entire fortress was quickly breached in two hours, and it was very simple to clean up the inhabitants of the Tsarist Empire, they all hid in the manor, and the outside were all indigenous Tatars.

All the prime of life were used as coolies to strengthen the walls of the fortress, and the old and young were expelled from the fortress and allowed to return freely, as for life and death, they could only resign themselves to fate, this fortress was later named Zhubao, because Sun Chuanting was unwilling to use his own name, and Kuznetsk was called Zhangbao because of Zhang Bingzhong's wit, Zhang Bingzhong disliked the name was too vulgar, so he asked Sun Chuanting to change it to Bingzhong Fort.