More than 200,000 people with more than 100,000 baggage teams pulled out an boundless contingent on the flat land of northeastern India. If you look at it from above, this large team of hundreds of thousands of people looks like a swarm of ants paving the road.

Humayon came to a small river, but he saw a large army on foot running in front of him on fast horses.

The fast horses, known in Persian as "Seadhu", were descendants of the Persian nobles of the Mughal Empire and were confidential messengers in Humayun's army. These messengers, dressed in ornate Persian armor and white tasseled ornaments on their horses, had the highest right of way in the army.

Several fast horses crossed the river directly, rushed to Humayun, jumped off their horses, and shouted half-kneeling: "Your Majesty, the sentry ahead returns!" The 40,000 most elite soldiers and horses of the Ming Kingdom boarded the ship from the port in southwestern Burma, and I heard that they had returned to the Ming Kingdom. ”

Humayun was overjoyed when he heard the words of these messengers.

Li Zhi's general, Li Laosi, swept through the Indochina Peninsula with 150,000 men and had already conquered Burma. Li Laosi's elite is an army of 40,000 tigers. These Tiger Ben troops are equipped with sniper rifles, and some are even equipped with rear-loading rifles, and their combat effectiveness is very outstanding.

Previously, Humayun was also worried about whether he could defeat Li Zhi. You must know that although the 200,000 Indian army is outnumbered, only 60,000 are equipped with the most advanced "Formosa" rifles of the Dutch. 70,000 people got old-fashioned arquebuses from the Dutch, and their combat effectiveness was far inferior to Li Zhi's soldiers and horses. And 80,000 people did not have firearms at all, and fought only with ordinary swords.

If Li Zhi's 40,000 Tiger Ben army was in Burma, Humayun felt that he would not dare to enter Burma at all. The 40,000 Tiger Ben troops were placed there, and even in the mountains, 100,000 musketeers would be destroyed.

But God helped the Mughals, and the intelligence of the Dutch was indeed correct, and there was a civil strife in the Ming Kingdom. Li Zhi hurriedly transported the main force of the 40,000 Tiger Army back to China, apparently to deal with the Jiangbei Army within the Ming State.

In this way, Humayun only needs to deal with 50,000 Yizi battalions and 60,000 warrior troops.

According to Humayun's intelligence, the Nayizi battalion has gone directly to the battlefield since its formation, and its marksmanship is not perfect, and its combat effectiveness is at most comparable to Humayun's new musketeers. The samurai army, which had no firearms, was not worth mentioning, and if they were fired in a volley by the arquebusiers, they might have collapsed.

With an army of more than 200,000 against a motley army of 110,000, Humayun was sure of victory.

If Li Laosi can be defeated, I am afraid that the territory of the Mughal Empire will extend into Burma, and the empire will expand its territory to unprecedented places in its own hands.

Humayun's face shone with excitement as he thought about it.

He jerked out his sword and shouted, "Glory to the Mughals! ”

The warriors around Humayun shouted in unison: "Glory to the Mughals! ”

"Glory to the Mughals!"

The shouts began around Humayun and spread outward, until finally a deafening mountain and tsunami erupted.

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The temperature on the Heilongjiang side has dropped below freezing. But Zhirkov, who was standing in the cold wind, did not feel cold at all. He wears a brown bearskin coat and a bearskin hat on his head, with only his oiled face and hands exposed in the wind.

In fact, there is no need to be oiled to protect against the wind at such temperatures, but Zhirkov is used to applying oil in winter.

Zhirkov, who was the commander of 20,000 Cossack soldiers, stood on a hill on the bank of the river, greedily observing the land on the other side of the river.

After crossing the river, it is the land of the Ming Kingdom.

Russia's desire for land is endless. In the 17th century, when technology was not developed, the frozen land of Siberia was almost uninhabited for hundreds of miles, but the tsar still tirelessly sent expeditionary forces to Siberia, and opened a passage in southern Siberia to separate the whole of Siberia from other countries.

Of course, the tsar longed more for the Far East in the south of Siberia. If he could go all the way south from Heilongjiang to invade the three northeastern provinces of the Ming Kingdom and open up an ice-free port on the Liaodong Peninsula, then the tsar would be satisfied.

Russia has long begun to infiltrate the three northeastern provinces. As early as the twentieth year of Chongzhen, Russia sent hundreds of Cossacks across the Heilongjiang River to raid the natives of the three northeastern provinces.

However, Li Zhi's soldiers of the Ming Kingdom were strong and strong, and they beat the Russians back.

Tsar Alexei was not a man who easily admitted defeat. Since he could not defeat Li Zhi alone, Alexei found allies in Europe. The British were a good collaborator, they were allies with the Dutch, and the Dutch could be found smoothly through the British.

Therefore, when the Jiangbei army began to attack the capital in the north, the Ming merchants who had been bribed by the Dutch quickly spread the news to the Russians north of the Heilongjiang River.

The merchants of the Ming Dynasty revealed to Zhirkov that this time not only the Jiangbei army within the Ming Kingdom attacked the capital, but also the 200,000 troops of the Mughal Empire in India attacked Li Zhi's southern territory. If all the soldiers and horses are counted together, there will be more than 400,000 people besieging Li Zhi this time.

After the tsar bought new rifles from the British, he deployed 20,000 Cossacks in the Far East. The 20,000 Cossacks, armed with Formosa rifles bought from the British, went south to the riverside of the Heilongjiang River.

There was already some ice floe on the Heilongjiang River, which made Zhirkov feel safe.

Cold, the Russian's best friend.

In another month, the three northeastern provinces of the Ming Kingdom will be ice and snow, and Li Zhi's soldiers will not be able to fight at all.

To cope with the bitter cold, the Russians had a whole set of equipment, including a variety of fur coats and hats. These cold equipment can only be obtained from hunters in the north, and it is impossible for the Ming people to equip them in large quantities.

Moreover, the Russians are different from the Ming people who lived south of the Great Wall, and the Russians have lived in the coldest places for a long time and have a natural resistance to the cold. In the coldest times, the southerners could not move outdoors even if they had fur, but the Cossacks under Zhirkov could continue to fight in the field.

20,000 people were not a lot, but for the four months of the winter from October to February, the Cossacks of Zhirkov were invincible.

Li Zhi's soldiers and horses could not fight at all in the three northeastern provinces in winter.

Zhirkov decided to enter the three northeastern provinces of the Ming Kingdom in winter, kill all the people there, and burn the houses of the Guangming people. In that case, the colonization of the three northeastern provinces by the Ming people would completely collapse.

As long as all the Ming people in the three northeastern provinces are killed, then Russia will not be far from occupying the three northeastern provinces.

Li Zhi was besieged in the south and was unable to take care of the north at all. And even if Li Zhi wanted to go north to stop the Russian army, he couldn't stand the cold in the northeast at all.

It was a perfect plan of aggression.

Although Zhirkov was the leader chosen by the Cossacks, he also longed for Russian titles and wealth. Zhirko felt that after this victory, the tsar would definitely make himself an earl.

With a wave of his hand at the troops, Zhirkov gave the order to cross the river.

Twenty thousand Cossacks, wrapped in fur coats, carried out the newly made boats and lowered them into the unfrozen Heilongjiang River. The soldiers shouted slogans, waved their oars, and attacked the rich Ming Kingdom in the south.