No matter how unwilling the Japanese were, they still had to fight against the Russian Expeditionary Force, as the weather warmed up, the vegetation grew, and the army gathered around Omu-Minsk, 50,000 soldiers and horses and 150,000 men of the Kingdom of Sweden had built fortifications and military camps fifty miles away from the city of Omu-Minsk.

The Russian expeditionary force occupied a radius of 100 miles, with a strength of 1 million, of course, all serfs, the main force of 200,000 soldiers and horses, as well as the tsarist cavalry, a small number of Cossack cavalry, and Polish cavalry.

Trenches, ravines, fortifications, both sides built no less than the other.

A hundred miles to the rear of the Japanese were settlements, and a radius of several hundred miles were occupied by the common people, and farther in the rear were the Goguryeo people and militia, as well as the wandering Mongolian patrol cavalry, the cavalry of the Qing Dynasty, and the cavalry and 10,000 people of a field brigade led by Merlin Yu himself who came to observe the battle from the Chinese Empire.

Merlinyu and a group of officers of the Huaxia Army came to the front line with 300 cavalry, climbed a peak, hid their horses in the woods halfway up the mountainside, and watched the confrontation between Japan and the Russian expeditionary force in the distance with binoculars.

A small tributary of the Lena River flows over the battlefield between the two sides, and between the two sides is the terrain that divides the battlefield from high grounds, hills, ravines, woods, etc., about ten kilometers wide, and the rear is either undulating low hills, or some plains, woods, the terrain is slightly gentle, and the battlefield of the two sides is ten kilometers wide in the middle.

Standing here can overlook the battlefield, it should be relatively safe, there are also Mongol iron cavalry patrols next to it, as well as soldiers patrolling the indigenous people of Southeast Asia, the Japanese in the fortifications on the periphery and the villages in the rear indifferently look at the military observation group of the Huaxia Army, the people of the new Japan know that the Huaxia Empire forced them to come here to fight the Russians, so they did not have a good face for them.

Even if the Qing Dynasty and the natives of Southeast Asia, the natives of Nanyang are only forced to take care of them, some convenience, and they do not have a good face for them, even those Han people of the Great Qing Kingdom do not have a sense of gratitude to Huaxia, because the Chinese Empire is such a cow, if you can't do it, you have to be cleaned up, persecuted, if you win the war, if you can fight the West and defend the Chinese Empire against the invasion of Russia, then keep it, if not, they will attack you.

Even in this case, Zhang Qiang also sent a military observation group to watch the battle on the front lines of these allies who were not friendly to the Chinese Empire, so that they could understand whether the battle mode and fighting mode had changed, so as to adjust the strategy and tactics and combat methods of the Chinese Empire, develop new weapons, and suppress the enemy, which was the reason for the strength of the Chinese Empire.

The Chinese Empire did not take the hatred of Japan at all, all the indifference here. Merlin fish is the same, he knows which emperor behind him wants what, these people will die, and in the future they will lead their soldiers and horses to fight here, and this will also become the territory of the Chinese Empire.

The 10-kilometer-wide frontal battlefield, due to the obstruction of rivers and ravines, both families can not fully engage in battle, can only confront each other on some plain terrain, defend on rugged terrain, the main battlefield is the plain terrain, the plain terrain has a swamp and forest, a place for ice fields and streams, only one is a battlefield about five miles wide and fifteen miles deep that can be set up, the main battlefield of both sides, and the battles are all here.

From the place where Merlin Fish is here, you can see the battlefield of the battle between the two sides clearly, and you can even see the enemy's camp in the rear, as well as the small villages where the enemy lived in the past, as well as the settlements and towns built by the Han people, and the military camp in the wasteland outside of these, or behind the hills, and the position of the enemy's artillery.

Both sides were engaged in initial infiltration, reconnaissance, and constant cavalry wading through the shallows of rivers, coming up from dense jungles or rugged ravines, and then exchanging fire with the defenders who had been assigned to the area.

It has been decades since the era of firearms, and Russia has also fought with the Qing Dynasty for ten years, so the weapons of both sides are muskets, short swords, daggers, and primitive weapons bows and crossbows have long been extinct.

The generals on both sides are veterans who have been fighting for decades, and they all know that charging from the front will kill a lot of people, so they are looking for a place where they can raid the enemy and look for weak points in the enemy's defenses.

Merlins can see at least thirty scouts on both sides here, scouts fighting on each other's territory, besieging each other, or being besieged by the other, and the battle here is no less tragic than the casualties caused by the artillery, trenches, fortifications, platoons of guns, and crowds of people in front of the battle.

Merlinyu's deputy, Lu Bao, pointed to a place, where there were more than 30 people sent by the Japanese generals, who were discovered by the enemy, did not go out of the five miles, and hurriedly retreated, but the enemy's soldiers and horses here came out of the camp to intercept, you see the enemy's weapons, it seems that the use of the same as ours is the same as our spear, but the rate of fire is a little slow, and it also carries an iron frame, it seems that the arquebus of the Russian army is still not as single as the Qing army we handed over, and a small number of string guns come quickly, The Japanese had already killed more than 20 of the enemy, and they had managed to reach the river.

Merlin Yu looked at it and said: "Well, but the Russians are not vegetarians, at least there are more rules in terms of troops and arrangements, the emperor said that in this aspect, the Westerners who left more than ten years or even decades earlier than us know how to use these firearms better, although they are inferior to us in terms of weapon performance, but in terms of fighting will and tactical skills, they are much stronger than those Japanese, so it is impossible for these thirty or so people to come back alive." ”

Sure enough, as soon as the 30-odd Japanese scouts had crossed the river halfway through, five or six people were killed, and the rest reflexively rushed out to buy time for the Japanese who crossed the river.

Soon all the Japanese who fought reflexively were knocked down, and the remaining Japanese crossed the river, but it was not safe to cross the river, the Japanese did not deploy garrisons in this place, more than a dozen Russian cavalry jumped into the river, pursued, and hit three or five Japanese, and then I don't know where suddenly a few Russians came out of nowhere to block in front of the Japanese scouts, after a few short fire bolt assaults, the Japanese were left with less than five people, and then the two sides discarded the muskets without bullets, and fought each other, in fencing, When it came close to the fight, the Russians were much more clever than the diminutive Japanese, and soon five Japanese were either captured or killed.

The Russians retreated to the other side of the river to satisfaction.

The Russians are really cunning, they have set up an ambush here in advance, just to intercept the people who pass here.

(End of chapter)