Mao Wenlong captured a small village fort by killing chickens with a knife, and initially gained some combat experience, but when he took stock of the results after the war, Mao Wenlong was about to go crazy, a small village fort actually cost nearly a thousand rounds of artillery shells, more than a dozen boxes of machine gun bullets, where is this war, it is simply a pile of silver, how much is this if hundreds of castles are down? If this battle continues like this, I am afraid that the treasury of the Ming Dynasty will also be ruined by him, but if this is not the case, then it will have to be filled with the lives of soldiers, which is not what Mao Wenlong hopes.

In fact, Mao Wenlong is used to fighting those tailwind battles, especially elite special forces like him, under normal circumstances, they are mainly sneak attacks and surprise attacks, and the real positional warfare and siege warfare are rarely fought, except that the cost of training is relatively high, and the cost of fighting is very low, like the kind of tragic battlefield where hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands of soldiers die at every turn, Mao Wenlong thinks that the cost is too great and it is not worth fighting such a battle.

Since a battle like Kong Youde's is too costly, then we have to think of other ways, but it is still necessary to bring enough ammunition before the war, but when fighting, we should use the least ammunition while ensuring that the soldiers suffer the least losses. This requires that front-line commanders must learn to make the most of all kinds of terrain and opportunities, and learn to fight skillfully. In the constant tug-of-war, both sides tried their best to reduce their losses, after all, it was too far from the base camp, and it was very difficult to replenish military supplies.

Just when Mao Wenlong and his subordinates were fighting wits and courage with the enemy with great difficulty, Sun Chuanting withdrew from Zhubao with his troops. At the same time, Zhu Youxiao also sent a large number of munitions and materials, among these materials, there are a large number of *, these * are under the guidance of Zhu Youxiao, in the Shenhuo stove company manufactured, he on the basis of the original most primitive gasoline stove * after continuous hard research, and finally manufactured this kind of *, the firing device is still a mortar barrel.

Now that Sun Chuanting has come back and handed over all the matters on the front line to Mao Wenlong, then Mao Wenlong can directly lead the army to the front line to command the battle, unlike the original situation where he could only command the battle according to the return of the three subordinates. However, Mao Wenlong is no longer the stunned young general of a few years ago, after all, as he grows older, his impulsive character becomes more and more stable, and this time Sun Chuanting is in the rear, both the army and military supplies are very sufficient, which lays a good foundation for Mao Wenlong's operations.

Mao Wenlong divided all the military generals into three parts, of which 5,000 men led by Batur were used as mobile forces to carry out guerrilla attacks along the left bank of the Irtysh River. Because the war horses used by Batur's 5,000 horses are all sweat horses, these horses are better than the Cossack Don hippos, but the number of these war horses is limited, and one person and two horses are already the limit of supply, Mao Wenlong assigned them some ordinary Mongolian horses to carry arms and materials, so as to facilitate their supplies along the way.

Zhang Bingzhong, He Renlong, and Shuo Lei are another part, originally these three were also militants and belonged to Sun Chuanting's subordinates, and Mao Wenlong was embarrassed to command them by himself, so he asked Zhang Bingzhong, who Sun Chuanting admired the most, to lead them to move along the right bank of the Irtysh River, and cooperate with Batur, and the ultimate goal was the city of Omsk on the Irtysh River.

As for Mao Wenlong himself, he took Shang Kexi, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and more than 20,000 horses to take the northernmost route, which is the most difficult route, Mao Wenlong left the most difficult task to himself, and the final goal is also the Omsk Castle, this castle is one of the most important bases of the Cossack bandits, only by seizing this castle can it be regarded as being able to control the throat of the former Siberian Khanate, and smoothly seize the old capital of the Siberian Khanate, thereby limiting the Tsarist Empire to the west of the Ural Mountains, Don't let him be a behemoth.

Mao Wenlong led more than 20,000 horses all the way to the west, and it was difficult to meet suitable ambushes and attack terrain on the open plains, so he could only speak with strength. More than 20,000 people is a huge team, especially the long-distance march, just carrying food and supplies of the horse team has more than 30,000 pack horses, and Sun Chuanting is still in Bingzhong Fort to prepare the next batch of supplies, in addition to Batur does not need too many supplies, Zhang Bingzhong, Mao Wenlong marched on the back road, established a long supply point, some are the original Cossack soldiers built the castle, some are just built by the Ming army, forming two necklace supply lines. It was difficult to hide such a huge march, and the Cossacks quickly judged that the Ming army was going to fight a large-scale war, and they began to send troops to prepare for a battle.

Mao Wenlong chose a safe way to march, which was different from his surprise attack on Nurhachi's nest back then, at that time the route was relatively short, even if it failed, it could retreat with the familiar terrain, but now there is no such opportunity, and if it fails, the whole army will be annihilated. The scouts sent by Mao Wenlong spread all over a radius of hundreds of miles, trying to find suitable terrain as much as possible, thinking of giving the enemy a fatal blow, so as to lay the foundation for victory in the war in one fell swoop.

After the scouts' arduous reconnaissance, Mao Wenlong finally determined a place, this place was a small town in the original Siberian Khanate, but now it is almost in ruins, there are few families, the town is built on a slightly higher earthen ridge than the surrounding area, the line of sight is relatively open, very suitable for positional warfare. After Mao Wenlong received the information, he immediately ordered Kong Youde to send people to occupy this place, prepare for the follow-up troops to be stationed, and at the same time be responsible for monitoring the movements of the Russian army.

In addition to the 80,000 regular troops sent by the Romanovs, the Stroganov family almost did everything they could, organizing more than 30,000 Cossack soldiers, including a large number of Nordic mercenaries and bandits. The target of these people was the rear of the Ming army, trying to cut off the logistics supply line of the Ming army and let the Ming army collapse without a fight. Of course, the Stroganov family is not stupid, West Siberia is the best interest of their family, but their family's largest stronghold is still in the Kazan nest, so they can't spend all their troops on this war alone, just plan to get rich in this war and get the maximum benefits, and attack the logistics supply line, you can get enough supplies, and you don't have to pay too much price, this is their best purpose, in order to achieve this goal, Sasha, the second son of their family, became the commander of the lead this time, and was in charge of the operation.

After receiving Mao Wenlong's order, Kong Youde quickly rushed to this nameless town with his three thousand soldiers. Several families in the town saw a large number of troops arriving, and also knew that there would be a war here, so they quickly evacuated according to Kong Youde's arrangement, and withdrew in the direction of the Ming army, they did not dare to expose the news of the Ming army. The area of the town is not large, but it is enough for Kong Youde to arrange his 3,000 men, but unfortunately, this town only has a simple fortress wall, and it is not very strong.

After occupying this town, before Kong Youde's troops had time to rest, a large number of Tsarist Russian troops arrived. The location of this town is so important that not only the Ming army wants to occupy it, but the Russian army also wants to occupy it, this is the only commanding height in the nearby area, and it has a very high military value, and the Russian army is also very aware of this, so they quickly started fighting here.

More than 10,000 people from the Tsarist Russian forward troops flocked to the team, led by the division commander Major General Leonid, which is a divisional unit of the regular Russian army, Leonid was born in a noble family, graduated from the military university of the empire, has excellent studies, and has a good record, at the age of thirty years he became a regular army commander of the Tsarist Russian Empire, and his ability has been recognized by his superiors.

When he came to the vicinity of this town, Major General Leonid found that the Ming army had already occupied the town one step ahead of him, so he did not rashly launch an attack, but only stationed his army on the south side of the town. It seems that he has good battlefield judgment, so that he can have a good line of sight and have an advantage in shooting in battle. Then he began to build artillery positions, aiming the artillery he brought at the town, waiting for the arrival of the large army behind.

When Mao Wenlong arrived with the main force, it happened that the main force of the Tsarist army also rushed to the vicinity of the town, it seems that the intentions of the two sides coincide, but who can achieve their own goals, we have to see the real strength of the army, this battle will be a real hard encounter, there are not too many tricks.